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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Taipei or Toledo?

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
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Toledo for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’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, Toledo 5: Taipei leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Toledo 40: Taipei leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei 68, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Toledo 22: Taipei leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei 78, Toledo 40: Taipei leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Toledo 45: Taipei leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Toledo 64: Taipei leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Toledo 32: Taipei leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Taipei 66, Toledo 58: Taipei leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei 55, Toledo 22: Taipei leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Toledo 30: Taipei leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Toledo.

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 food and drink with your weighting.

Toledo
43match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiToledo
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 dialectSpanish
CurrencyNew Taiwan Dollar (TWD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number110 or 112 or 119112
Elevation10 m523 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiToledo
City population2,429,42987,216
People per km²8,938376
Museums within 10 km6913
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.