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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Chengdu or Liverpool?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Liverpool for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Liverpool’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, Liverpool 22: Liverpool leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Liverpool 48: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Liverpool 64: Liverpool leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Liverpool 66: Chengdu leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Liverpool 52: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Liverpool 64: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Liverpool 55: Chengdu leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Liverpool 68: Chengdu leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Liverpool 52: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Liverpool 50: Chengdu leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Liverpool 66: Liverpool leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Liverpool 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 Liverpool.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Liverpool
52match

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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduLiverpool
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112 or 999
Elevation500 m70 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduLiverpool
City population20,937,757513,441
People per km²1,4564,592
Museums within 10 km1031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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.