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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Beijing or Turin?

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
  • wellness
  • shopping

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

Choose Turin for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Turin leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Beijing and Turin are level on 81.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Turin 78: Beijing leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Turin 50: Beijing leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Turin 80: Turin leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Turin 84: Beijing leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Turin 57: Beijing leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Turin 68: Beijing leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Turin 58: Beijing leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Turin 58: Beijing leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Turin 65: Beijing leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Turin 40: Beijing leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Turin.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Turin
61match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Turin 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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingTurin
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 m239 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingTurin
City population21,893,095841,600
People per km²1,3346,474
Museums within 10 km8372
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64

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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.