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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Chengdu or Keystone?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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 and Keystone are level on 5.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Keystone 27: Chengdu leads by 59 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Keystone 7: Chengdu leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Keystone 12: Chengdu leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Keystone 93: Keystone leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Keystone 55: Chengdu leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Keystone 66: Keystone leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Keystone 50: Chengdu leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Keystone 22: Chengdu leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Keystone 12: Chengdu leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Keystone 22: Chengdu leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Keystone 32: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Keystone.

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.

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 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

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduKeystone
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 m2,796 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduKeystone
City population20,937,7571,369
People per km²1,45613
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. 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.