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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Chengdu or Florence?

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
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Florence leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Florence 74: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Florence 94: Florence leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Florence 42: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Florence 58: Chengdu leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Florence 98: Florence leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Florence 45: Chengdu leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Florence 78: Florence leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Florence 72: Florence leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Florence 35: Chengdu leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Florence 58: Florence leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Florence 42: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Florence.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Florence
59match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine 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

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduFlorence
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
Elevation500 m50 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduFlorence
City population20,937,757360,930
People per km²1,4563,528
Museums within 10 km10141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.