Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.
Taipei or Tulum?
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
- getting around
- live music and the arts
- culture and sights
What lies behind each score is written up on Taipei’s own page.
Choose Tulum for
- beaches
- wellness
- nightlife
What lies behind each score is written up on Tulum’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Tulum.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.
Wins on beaches and wellness 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
Tulum in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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.
Tulum has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.
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). Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.
Before you go
| Measure | Taipei | Tulum |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Taiwanese 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 | Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya |
| Currency | New Taiwan Dollar (TWD) | Mexican Peso (MXN) |
| Sockets | AB110 V, 60 Hz | AB127 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+8 | UTC-5 |
| Emergency number | 110 or 112 or 119 | 911 |
| Elevation | 10 m | 5 m |
| Main airport | Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centre | Felipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | - | 9 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Taipei | Tulum |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 2,429,429 | 33,374 |
| People per km² | 8,938 | - |
| Museums within 10 km | 69 | 0 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 8 months | 12 months |
Where else could you go?
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