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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Beijing or Sedona?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Sedona leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Sedona 33: Beijing leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Sedona 20: Beijing leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Sedona 8: Beijing leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Sedona 55: Beijing leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Sedona 42: Beijing leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Sedona 22: Beijing leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Sedona 34: Beijing leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Sedona 18: Beijing leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Sedona 13: Beijing leads by 55 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Sedona.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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
15 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingSedona
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m1,319 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingSedona
City population21,893,0959,684
People per km²1,334195
Museums within 10 km830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60

Where else could you go?

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.