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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Boca Raton or Chengdu?

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 Boca Raton for

  • beaches

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

Choose Chengdu for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’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. Boca Raton 82, Chengdu 5: Boca Raton leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Chengdu 60: Chengdu leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Chengdu 65: Chengdu leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Chengdu 50: Chengdu leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Chengdu.

Your match

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

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Boca RatonChengdu

Where the figures come from

Boca Raton 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. Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre). Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonChengdu
Official language-Putonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation4 m500 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonChengdu
City population97,42220,937,757
People per km²1,2031,456
Museums within 10 km510
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.