VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Tampa?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

AmsterdamTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 35 points.35
AmsterdamTampa
Score4075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km3310
Coast distance24 km1 km
Water distance24 km1 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 29 points.29
AmsterdamTampa
Score8354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4431
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 53 points.53
AmsterdamTampa
Score8027
Museums within 10 km9813
Museums within 2 km of centre6910
Share of museums within 2 km %7077
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 31 points.31
AmsterdamTampa
Score7039
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7070
Nightclubs within 4 km11426
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 30 points.30
AmsterdamTampa
Score6030
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8272
Park area within 2 km49 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 38 points.38
AmsterdamTampa
Score6830
Tourist attractions within 2 km743
Park area within 2 km49 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 47 points.47
AmsterdamTampa
Score6821
Notable places within 2 km19613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamTampa
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 18 points.18
AmsterdamTampa
Score5775
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureAmsterdamTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamTampa
City population921,468384,959
People per km²4,208848
Museums within 10 km1016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9847
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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.