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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Chengdu or Valencia?

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
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • families
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Valencia 74: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Valencia 66: Chengdu leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Valencia 60: Chengdu leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Valencia 70: Chengdu leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Valencia 57: Chengdu leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Valencia 57: Chengdu leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Valencia 42: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Valencia.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Chengdu
63match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Valencia
65match

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduValencia
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation500 m15 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduValencia
City population20,937,757840,792
People per km²1,4566,242
Museums within 10 km1045
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.