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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Taipei or Valencia?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Valencia 74: Taipei leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei and Valencia are level on 68.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei 78, Valencia 60: Taipei leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Valencia 70: Taipei leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Valencia 76: Taipei leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Valencia 57: Taipei leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Taipei 66, Valencia 57: Taipei leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei and Valencia are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Valencia 42: Taipei leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Valencia.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valencia
65match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiValencia
City population2,429,429840,792
People per km²8,9386,242
Museums within 10 km6945
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.