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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Chengdu or Deer Valley?

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 Chengdu for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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. Chengdu 5, Deer Valley 10: Deer Valley leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Deer Valley 38: Chengdu leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Deer Valley 15: Chengdu leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Deer Valley 25: Chengdu leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Deer Valley 38: Chengdu leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Deer Valley 60: Chengdu leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Deer Valley 50: Chengdu leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Deer Valley 25: Chengdu leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Deer Valley 4: Chengdu leads by 76 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Deer Valley 30: Chengdu leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Deer Valley 52: Chengdu leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Deer Valley.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

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.

Chengdu in July

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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 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

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley 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. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduDeer Valley
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation500 m2,474 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduDeer Valley
City population20,937,757-
People per km²1,456-
Museums within 10 km100
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.