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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
White sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach, Pensacola
PensacolaWhite sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Pensacola by Jason Meredith, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Amman or Pensacola?

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 Amman for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Pensacola for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Pensacola’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. Amman 22, Pensacola 84: Pensacola leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Pensacola 45: Amman leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Pensacola 45: Amman leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Pensacola 42: Pensacola leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Pensacola 62: Pensacola leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Pensacola 45: Amman leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Pensacola 62: Pensacola leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Pensacola 18: Amman leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Pensacola 28: Amman leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Pensacola 44: Amman leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Pensacola 36: Pensacola leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Pensacola 30: Amman leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Pensacola.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Pensacola
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Pensacola in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Pensacola: 1991-2020 normals, Pensacola / Pleasant Grove (12.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanPensacola
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m31 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)6 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanPensacola
City population4,007,52654,312
People per km²2,385515
Museums within 10 km85
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.