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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The coloured houses stepping down to the sea, Positano
PositanoThe coloured houses stepping down to the sea

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Positano by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Beijing or Positano?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’s own page.

Choose Positano for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Positano’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Beijing 6, Positano 77: Positano leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Positano 40: Beijing leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Positano 22: Beijing leads by 71 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Positano 22: Beijing leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Positano 80: Positano leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Positano 88: Positano leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Positano 28: Beijing leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Positano 35: Beijing leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Positano 45: Beijing leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Positano 10: Beijing leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Positano 15: Beijing leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Positano 45: Beijing leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Positano.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Positano
42match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Positano in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Positano's temperatures are measured 25 km from the centre, at Capri.

Positano has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Positano's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Positano: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (25.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingPositano
Official languagePutonghuaItalian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m142 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)33 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingPositano
City population21,893,0953,729
People per km²1,334429
Museums within 10 km8310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.