VacationSelector

Athens or Tampa?

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.

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.

AthensTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 27 points.27
AthensTampa
Score4875
Swim season months58
Beaches 10 km1410
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 15 points.15
AthensTampa
Score6954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2531
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 46 points.46
AthensTampa
Score7327
Museums within 10 km12213
Museums within 2 km of centre7810
Share of museums within 2 km %6477
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 42 points.42
AthensTampa
Score8139
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5070
Nightclubs within 4 km13626
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 15 points.15
AthensTampa
Score4530
Protected land share 50 km %56
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5072
Park area within 2 km128 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 41 points.41
AthensTampa
Score7130
Tourist attractions within 2 km683
Park area within 2 km128 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 54 points.54
AthensTampa
Score7521
Notable places within 2 km29113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensTampa
Score7443
Price level global55.8100
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 1 points.1
AthensTampa
Score7475
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months71
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 15 m
€634
ATH · 20 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
10 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 35 m
€198-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
15 h 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAthensTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensTampa
City population643,452384,959
People per km²16,499848
Museums within 10 km886
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8247
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months8 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.