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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Guilin or St. Pete Beach?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, St. Pete Beach 40: Guilin leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, St. Pete Beach 18: Guilin leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, St. Pete Beach 28: Guilin leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, St. Pete Beach 57: Guilin leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, St. Pete Beach 58: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Guilin 45, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Guilin 45, St. Pete Beach 30: Guilin leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, St. Pete Beach 20: Guilin leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, St. Pete Beach 32: Guilin leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, St. Pete Beach 20: Guilin leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Guilin
44match

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

St. Pete Beach
42match

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.

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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinSt. Pete Beach
Official languagePutonghua-
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation153 m2 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinSt. Pete Beach
City population4,931,1378,879
People per km²-173
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.