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Atlanta or Bologna?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

AtlantaBologna
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Bologna are level on 0.
AtlantaBologna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance373 km74 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaBologna
Score5958
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739822
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2320
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 32 points.32
AtlantaBologna
Score3567
Museums within 10 km4158
Museums within 2 km of centre1643
Share of museums within 2 km %3974
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaBologna
Score4953
Drinking venues within 4 km531720
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284531
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5374
Nightclubs within 4 km4630
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaBologna
Score3139
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 23 points.23
AtlantaBologna
Score3255
Tourist attractions within 2 km232
Park area within 2 km113 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaBologna
Score4060
Notable places within 2 km39120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaBologna
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Atlanta and Bologna are level on 67.
AtlantaBologna
Score6767
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C7 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm34 mm to 75 mm
Dry months05
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaBologna
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
CancunCUN
2 h 20 m
€265-370
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 118 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

MeasureAtlantaBologna
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m54 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaBologna
City population498,715387,971
People per km²1,4332,754
Museums within 10 km2766
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre5662

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.