VacationSelector

Shanghai or Vilnius?

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

Your match

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

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

Vilnius
51
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.

ShanghaiVilnius
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
ShanghaiVilnius
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km016
Coast distance18 km260 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 26 points.26
ShanghaiVilnius
Score4571
Museums within 10 km10874
Museums within 2 km of centre2854
Share of museums within 2 km %2673
Unesco sites within 50 km03
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 1 points.1
ShanghaiVilnius
Score4241
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km83 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 30 points.30
ShanghaiVilnius
Score8151
Tourist attractions within 2 km8627
Park area within 2 km83 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km100
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 14 points.14
ShanghaiVilnius
Score5165
Notable places within 2 km73161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 3 points.3
ShanghaiVilnius
Score7976
Price level global4953.1
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 12 points.12
ShanghaiVilnius
Score6553
Monthly daytime high8.5 °C to 33.2 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 216 mm41 mm to 90 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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Vilnius
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromShanghaiVilnius
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 20 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 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

MeasureShanghaiVilnius
Official languagePutonghuaLithuanian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation4 m98 m
Main airportShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureShanghaiVilnius
City population24,870,895581,475
People per km²3,9221,450
Museums within 10 km4430
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre6454
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.