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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Breckenridge 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 Breckenridge for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Chengdu for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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. Breckenridge 4, Chengdu 5: Chengdu leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 53 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Chengdu 60: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Chengdu 68: Breckenridge leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Chengdu 65: Chengdu leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Chengdu 50: Chengdu leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Chengdu.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BreckenridgeChengdu

Where the figures come from

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeChengdu
Official language-Putonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation2,926 m500 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeChengdu
City population5,07820,937,757
People per km²3321,456
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.