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Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Taipei or Wellington?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Wellington for

  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Taipei leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Taipei 88, Wellington 62: Taipei leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Taipei 68, Wellington 44: Taipei leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Taipei 58, Wellington 45: Taipei leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Taipei and Wellington are level on 78.
Day trips. Taipei 76, Wellington 40: Taipei leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Taipei 72, Wellington 62: Taipei leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Taipei 86, Wellington 68: Taipei leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Taipei 70, Wellington 42: Taipei leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Taipei 66, Wellington 33: Taipei leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Taipei 55, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Taipei 80, Wellington 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 Wellington.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Wellington
49match

Wins on 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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTaipeiWellington
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 dialectEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyNew Taiwan Dollar (TWD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number110 or 112 or 119111
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centreWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureTaipeiWellington
City population2,429,429216,200
People per km²8,938487
Museums within 10 km6912
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

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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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.