VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Fort Lauderdale?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 44 points.44
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score4084
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km337
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 38 points.38
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score8345
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4418
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 60 points.60
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score8020
Museums within 10 km9814
Museums within 2 km of centre696
Share of museums within 2 km %7043
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 36 points.36
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score7034
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7056
Nightclubs within 4 km11418
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 21 points.21
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score6081
Protected land share 50 km %2120
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8251
Park area within 2 km49 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 49 points.49
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score6819
Tourist attractions within 2 km742
Park area within 2 km49 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 68 points.68
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score680
Notable places within 2 km1962
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 19 points.19
AmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Score5776
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm55 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamFort Lauderdale
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€93-112
FLL · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
8 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
€174-269
FLL · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
CuracaoCUR
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamFort Lauderdale
Official languageDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation-2 m11 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamFort Lauderdale
City population921,468182,760
People per km²4,2081,829
Museums within 10 km1016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9825
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.