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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain

Photos: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Quito 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 Quito for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Taipei for

  • getting around
  • families
  • wellness

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. Quito 5, Taipei 40: Taipei leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Taipei 88: Taipei leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Quito 77, Taipei 68: Quito leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Taipei 58: Taipei leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Taipei 78: Quito leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Taipei 76: Taipei leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Taipei 72: Taipei leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Taipei 86: Taipei leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Taipei 70: Taipei leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Taipei 66: Quito leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito 38, Taipei 55: Taipei leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 44, Taipei 80: Taipei leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Quito and Taipei.

Your match

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

Quito
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on getting around 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.

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureQuitoTaipei
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern QuichuaTaiwanese 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
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency number911110 or 112 or 119
Elevation2,850 m10 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centre
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoTaipei
City population1,763,2752,429,429
People per km²4,7358,938
Museums within 10 km1669
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.