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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Taipei or Warsaw?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Taipei leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Warsaw 60: Taipei leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei 68, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei 78, Warsaw 47: Taipei leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Warsaw 52: Taipei leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Warsaw 62: Taipei leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Warsaw 72: Taipei leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Warsaw 55: Taipei leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Taipei 66, Warsaw 64: Taipei leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei 55, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Warsaw 35: Taipei leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Taipei and Warsaw.

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.

Warsaw
55match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiWarsaw
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 dialectPolish
CurrencyNew Taiwan Dollar (TWD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number110 or 112 or 119112
Elevation10 m118 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiWarsaw
City population2,429,4291,862,402
People per km²8,9383,601
Museums within 10 km69117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.