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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Chengdu or Ocean City, Maryland?

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
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Ocean City, Maryland for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’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, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Chengdu leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Ocean City, Maryland 14: Chengdu leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Ocean City, Maryland 45: Chengdu leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Ocean City, Maryland 50: Chengdu leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Ocean City, Maryland 42: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Ocean City, Maryland 34: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Ocean City, Maryland 24: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Ocean City, Maryland 18: Chengdu leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Ocean City, Maryland 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 Ocean City, Maryland.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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

Ocean City, Maryland 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). Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduOcean City, Maryland
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation500 m2 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduOcean City, Maryland
City population20,937,7576,844
People per km²1,45673
Museums within 10 km100
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 months

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.