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The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
AthensThe Parthenon on the Acropolis
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Athens by Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Athens or Turin?

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

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Turin for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Athens leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Athens 78, Turin 81: Turin leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Athens 88, Turin 78: Athens leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Athens 80, Turin 50: Athens leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Athens 64, Turin 80: Turin leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Athens 85, Turin 84: Athens leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Athens 58, Turin 57: Athens leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Athens 66, Turin 68: Turin leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Athens 55, Turin 58: Turin leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Athens 56, Turin 58: Turin leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Athens 64, Turin 65: Turin leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Athens 42, Turin 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 Turin.

Your match

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

Athens
Best match
67match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Turin
61match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and food and drink 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

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Turin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAthensTurin
Official languageGreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m239 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensTurin
City population643,452841,600
People per km²16,4996,474
Museums within 10 km8872
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.