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Athens or Fort Lauderdale?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
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.

AthensFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 36 points.36
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score4884
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km147
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 24 points.24
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score6945
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2518
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 53 points.53
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score7320
Museums within 10 km12214
Museums within 2 km of centre786
Share of museums within 2 km %6443
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 47 points.47
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score8134
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5056
Nightclubs within 4 km13618
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 36 points.36
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score4581
Protected land share 50 km %520
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5051
Park area within 2 km128 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 52 points.52
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score7119
Tourist attractions within 2 km682
Park area within 2 km128 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 75 points.75
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score750
Notable places within 2 km2912
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score7443
Price level global55.8100
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 2 points.2
AthensFort Lauderdale
Score7476
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm55 mm to 219 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensFort Lauderdale
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 15 m
€634
ATH · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
10 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€125-184
FLL · 7 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 2026-09 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

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 centre171 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre8225
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.