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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Taipei or Thessaloniki?

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 Taipei for

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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. Taipei 40, Thessaloniki 55: Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Thessaloniki 77: Taipei leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei 68, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei 78, Thessaloniki 66: Taipei leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Thessaloniki 74: Taipei leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Thessaloniki 50: Taipei leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Thessaloniki 60: Taipei leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Thessaloniki 50: Taipei leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Taipei and Thessaloniki are level on 66.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei 55, Thessaloniki 52: Taipei leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Thessaloniki 33: Taipei leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
61match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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. Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiThessaloniki
Official languageTaiwanese 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 dialectGreek
CurrencyNew Taiwan Dollar (TWD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number110 or 112 or 119112
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiThessaloniki
City population2,429,429309,617
People per km²8,93816,042
Museums within 10 km6932
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. 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 figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.