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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Chengdu or Havana?

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

  • food and drink
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Havana for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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, Havana 64: Havana leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Havana 40: Chengdu leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Havana 77: Havana leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Havana 60: Chengdu leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Havana 34: Chengdu leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Havana 38: Chengdu leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Havana 34: Chengdu leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Havana 38: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Havana 30: Chengdu leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Havana 58: Chengdu leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Havana 74: Havana leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Havana 22: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Havana.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on food and drink and day trips with your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts 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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Havana 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). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduHavana
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation500 m59 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduHavana
City population20,937,7572,492,618
People per km²1,4563,423
Museums within 10 km1012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.