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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Amman or Virginia Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Virginia Beach 42: Amman leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Virginia Beach 30: Amman leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Virginia Beach 37: Virginia Beach leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Virginia Beach 56: Virginia Beach leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Virginia Beach 64: Amman leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Virginia Beach 27: Amman leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Virginia Beach 32: Amman leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Virginia Beach 40: Amman leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Virginia Beach 38: Virginia Beach leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Virginia Beach 32: Amman leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Virginia Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Amman
45match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness with your weighting.

Virginia Beach
46match

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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AmmanVirginia Beach

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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanVirginia Beach
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m7 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanVirginia Beach
City population4,007,526459,470
People per km²2,385-
Museums within 10 km82
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.