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Macau or Paris?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
Paris

Photo: Efrem Efre, Pexels License

Your match

Macau
46
match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
70
match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

MacauParis
Beaches & swimming. Macau leads by 15 points.15
Food & drink. Paris leads by 19 points.19
Culture & sights. Paris leads by 35 points.35
Nightlife. Paris leads by 40 points.40
Nature & outdoors. Paris leads by 47 points.47
Day trips. Paris leads by 40 points.40
Good for families. Paris leads by 31 points.31
Getting around. Paris leads by 28 points.28
Shopping & style. Paris leads by 40 points.40
Affordability. Macau leads by 19 points.19
Live music & performing arts. Paris leads by 52 points.52
Wellness & relaxation. Macau and Paris are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Paris.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyMacauParis
Daytime high32 °C26 °C
Night-time low26 °C16 °C
Rainfall in the month281 mm58 mm
Sunshine7 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperature29 °CNo sea
Daylight13 hours a day16 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5
Paris
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMacauParis
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€159-193
MFM · 7 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 35 m
€180-240
MFM · 7 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
11 h 25 m
€687-789
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 10 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
11 h 10 m
€509-719
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€181-203
1 stop
MFM · 7 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
ManilaMNL
2 h 0 m
€125-142
MFM · 7 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 57 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-10 to 2026-12, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureMacauParis
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard ChineseFrench
CurrencyPataca (MOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation22 m27 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauParis
City population682,1002,103,778
People per km²5,91619,960
Museums within 10 km28251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.