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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Guilin or Santa Fe?

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
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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, Santa Fe 5: Guilin leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, Santa Fe 22: Guilin leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Santa Fe 80: Guilin leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, Santa Fe 70: Santa Fe leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Guilin and Santa Fe are level on 45.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Santa Fe 40: Guilin leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, Santa Fe 30: Guilin leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and Santa Fe.

Your match

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

Guilin
44match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Santa Fe
Best match
49match

Wins on shopping 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.

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinSanta Fe
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation153 m2,134 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinSanta Fe
City population4,931,13787,505
People per km²-645
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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. 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.