VacationSelector

Athens or Venice?

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 nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

AthensVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 21 points.21
AthensVenice
Score4869
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km1420
Coast distance6 km4 km
Water distance6 km4 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 24 points.24
AthensVenice
Score6945
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2510
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 1 points.1
AthensVenice
Score7372
Museums within 10 km12257
Museums within 2 km of centre7845
Share of museums within 2 km %6479
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Athens leads by 46 points.46
AthensVenice
Score8135
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5089
Nightclubs within 4 km1363
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 28 points.28
AthensVenice
Score4517
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5070
Park area within 2 km128 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 14 points.14
AthensVenice
Score7157
Tourist attractions within 2 km6872
Park area within 2 km128 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 8 points.8
AthensVenice
Score7583
Notable places within 2 km291464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 6 points.6
AthensVenice
Score7468
Price level global55.864.9
Daily budget€125€155
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 8 points.8
AthensVenice
Score7466
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months72
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
€134-222
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 113 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAthensVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensVenice
City population643,452250,369
People per km²16,499602
Museums within 10 km8852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre8246
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.