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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Chengdu or Punta Cana?

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

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 89 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Punta Cana 30: Chengdu leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Punta Cana 8: Chengdu leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Punta Cana 40: Chengdu leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Punta Cana 52: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Punta Cana 35: Chengdu leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Punta Cana 15: Chengdu leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Punta Cana 30: Chengdu leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Punta Cana 44: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Punta Cana 15: Chengdu leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Punta Cana 52: Chengdu leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

Punta Cana
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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduPunta Cana
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation500 m28 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduPunta Cana
City population20,937,757138,919
People per km²1,456292
Museums within 10 km100
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.