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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Chengdu or Valparaiso?

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

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Valparaiso 50: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Valparaiso 56: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Valparaiso 60: Chengdu leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Valparaiso 63: Chengdu leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Valparaiso 33: Chengdu leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Valparaiso 44: Chengdu leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Valparaiso 30: Chengdu leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Valparaiso 60: Chengdu leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Valparaiso 38: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Valparaiso 18: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduValparaiso
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation500 m21 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduValparaiso
City population20,937,757296,655
People per km²1,4566,180
Museums within 10 km1017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.