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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Fukuoka or Taipei?

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 Fukuoka for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Taipei for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Taipei’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. Fukuoka 50, Taipei 40: Fukuoka leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Taipei 88: Taipei leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Taipei 68: Taipei leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka 60, Taipei 58: Fukuoka leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Taipei 78: Taipei leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Taipei 76: Fukuoka leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Taipei 72: Fukuoka leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Taipei 86: Taipei leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Taipei 70: Taipei leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Taipei 66: Taipei leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Taipei 55: Taipei leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Taipei 80: Taipei leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Taipei.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
65match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on wellness 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.

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Taipei in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
288 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Taipei 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. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaTaipei
Official languageJapaneseTaiwanese Sign Language, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien, Rukai, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Paiwan, Yami, Atayal, Saaroa, Kavalan, Tsou, Seediq, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Taiwanese Hakka, Truku, Matsu dialect, Kinmen dialect, Wuqiu dialect
CurrencyYen (JPY)New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119110 or 112 or 119
Elevation8 m10 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centre
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaTaipei
City population1,603,0432,429,429
People per km²4,7158,938
Museums within 10 km2369
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.