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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Guilin or San Juan?

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 Guilin for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose San Juan for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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. Guilin 8, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, San Juan 74: Guilin leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, San Juan 52: Guilin leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Guilin 45, San Juan 58: San Juan leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Guilin 45, San Juan 38: Guilin leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, San Juan 50: San Juan leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, San Juan 38: Guilin leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin and San Juan are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and San Juan.

Your match

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

Guilin
44match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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GuilinSan Juan

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinSan Juan
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish, English
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation153 m3 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinSan Juan
City population4,931,137342,259
People per km²-2,847
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.