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The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis
The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals

Photos: Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License; Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Athens or Fort Lauderdale?

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 Athens for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose Fort Lauderdale for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Fort Lauderdale’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. Athens 70, Fort Lauderdale 88: Fort Lauderdale leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Athens 78, Fort Lauderdale 47: Athens leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Athens 88, Fort Lauderdale 28: Athens leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Athens 80, Fort Lauderdale 52: Athens leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Athens 64, Fort Lauderdale 62: Athens leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Athens 85, Fort Lauderdale 58: Athens leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Athens 58, Fort Lauderdale 66: Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Athens 66, Fort Lauderdale 32: Athens leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Athens 55, Fort Lauderdale 52: Athens leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Athens 56, Fort Lauderdale 32: Athens leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Athens 64, Fort Lauderdale 42: Athens leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Athens 42, Fort Lauderdale 40: Athens leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Athens and Fort Lauderdale.

Your match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
50match

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.

Athens in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 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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AthensFort Lauderdale

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAthensFort Lauderdale
Official languageGreek-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m11 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensFort Lauderdale
City population643,452182,760
People per km²16,4991,829
Museums within 10 km886
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.