VacationSelector

Shanghai or Turin?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Shanghai
54
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Turin
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ShanghaiTurin
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
ShanghaiTurin
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance18 km105 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Turin leads by 23 points.23
ShanghaiTurin
Score4568
Museums within 10 km10865
Museums within 2 km of centre2839
Share of museums within 2 km %2660
Unesco sites within 50 km04
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 9 points.9
ShanghaiTurin
Score4233
Protected land share 50 km %96
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km83 hectares72 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 28 points.28
ShanghaiTurin
Score8153
Tourist attractions within 2 km8636
Park area within 2 km83 hectares72 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km100
Sights concentration. Turin leads by 4 points.4
ShanghaiTurin
Score5155
Notable places within 2 km7392
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 11 points.11
ShanghaiTurin
Score7968
Price level global4964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 1 points.1
ShanghaiTurin
Score6564
Monthly daytime high8.5 °C to 33.2 °C7.1 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 216 mm44 mm to 127 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Turin
7
9
14
18
21
26
29
28
24
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Turin
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Turin
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Turin
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4
Turin
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromShanghaiTurin
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 103 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 0 m
€150-154
PVG · 33 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 103 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 35 m
€216-247
PVG · 33 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 45 m
€326-382
PVG · 33 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
ChongqingCKG, CQW
2 h 25 m
€175-196
PVG · 33 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
ShenzhenSZX
2 h 5 m
€170-179
SHA · 14 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 25 m
€36-129
TRN · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 103 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 2026-08 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureShanghaiTurin
Official languagePutonghuaItalian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation4 m239 m
Main airportShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureShanghaiTurin
City population24,870,895841,600
People per km²3,9226,474
Museums within 10 km4472
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6478
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.