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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Taipei or Ushuaia?

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

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: Taipei leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Ushuaia 40: Taipei leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei 68, Ushuaia 22: Taipei leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Ushuaia 18: Taipei leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei 78, Ushuaia 88: Ushuaia leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Ushuaia 14: Taipei leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Ushuaia 40: Taipei leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Ushuaia 45: Taipei leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Ushuaia 22: Taipei leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Taipei 66, Ushuaia 42: Taipei leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei 55, Ushuaia 10: Taipei leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Ushuaia 26: Taipei leads by 54 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Ushuaia.

Your match

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

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
No seasea
8 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). Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiUshuaia
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)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-3
Emergency number110 or 112 or 119117 or 911
Elevation10 m23 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiUshuaia
City population2,429,42982,615
People per km²8,9383,592
Museums within 10 km695
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.