VacationSelector

Beijing or York?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BeijingYork
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and York are level on 0.
BeijingYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance145 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 17 points.17
BeijingYork
Score6346
Museums within 10 km9518
Museums within 2 km of centre1516
Share of museums within 2 km %1689
Unesco sites within 50 km62
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Beijing leads by 2 points.2
BeijingYork
Score3533
Protected land share 50 km %317
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km143 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 34 points.34
BeijingYork
Score7743
Tourist attractions within 2 km4113
Park area within 2 km143 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km123
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 11 points.11
BeijingYork
Score5039
Notable places within 2 km6937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 25 points.25
BeijingYork
Score7954
Price level global4984.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 10 points.10
BeijingYork
Score6656
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months81
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingYork
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 55 m
€151-190
PKX · 45 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
GenevaGVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
4 h 30 m
€173-234
1 stop
PKX · 45 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PraguePRG
9 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBeijingYork
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112 or 999
Elevation43 m25 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingYork
City population21,893,095208,400
People per km²1,334766
Museums within 10 km8324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre2954

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.