Choose a time horizon
Short stays focus on timing, company and your daily rhythm. Long-term mode adds work, family, healthcare and housing.
Not a ranking. A choice about daily life.
Which city in China fits the way you want to live?
Choose between real-life trade-offs. Get one best match and two alternatives.
About 2–3 minutes · No sign-in
64candidate cities
2time horizons
1 + 2primary + alternatives
0required identity fields
Three quick steps
Start with daily life. Then check reality.
Choose between two good lives
No yes-or-no questions. Commute, space, weather, energy and quiet have to compete.
See the fit and the cost
Every result says why it fits and what may put you off. No mystery percentage.
Three days and three years are different questions
First, choose how long you are staying
A trip or a few months away
Timing, accommodation, getting around, food, nights alone and who is coming.
Make an ordinary Tuesday work
Work, commuting, family, healthcare, renting or buying, and having a life after work.
Not a “most livable” list
Every city strength comes with a trade-off
Dense opportunity often comes with expensive housing. A larger home may require a longer commute. Warm humidity and crisp seasons have no universal winner.
The goal is not to find China’s number one city. It is to find a city aligned with your current priorities and worth investigating further.
See the full method, algorithm and data limits →Current Beta city pool
64 cities across all 31 mainland divisions
Megacities, provincial capitals, industry hubs, coastal towns and highland cities. Check jobs, homes and family constraints before acting.
BeijingShanghaiShenzhenGuangzhouHangzhouSuzhouNanjingChengduChongqingWuhanChangshaQingdaoDalianKunmingXiamenXi’anGuiyangNingboTianjinShijiazhuangQinhuangdaoTaiyuanDatongHohhotBaotouShenyangChangchunJilin CityHarbinDaqingWuxiWenzhouHefeiHuangshanFuzhouQuanzhouNanchangJingdezhenJinanYantaiZhengzhouLuoyangYichangZhuzhouZhuhaiFoshanNanningGuilinBeihaiHaikouSanyaMianyangLeshanZunyiDaliYuxiLhasaBaojiLanzhouTianshuiXiningYinchuanUrumqiYining
Before you begin
A few direct answers
Are eight questions enough?
For entertainment, maybe. For a useful city match, we use 9 short-stay questions or 12 long-term questions, with a few extras for children, parents, solo travel and housing.
Will reality calibration tell me whether I can afford a home?
Not in the current Beta. Until official, district-level and current market data is connected, your budget becomes a city-by-city checklist rather than a fake affordability verdict.
Does the recommendation call a large language model?
No. Every answer weight, city score and diversity rule is fixed and auditable. A model may later help organize evidence and explain results, but it should not invent the winning city.
Are my answers stored?
No. Answers are calculated in the current browser state, with no sign-in, and cannot be restored by the site after a refresh or close.
There is no perfect city — only a better answer for your life now.