VacationSelector

Atlanta or Cardiff?

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 year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
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.

AtlantaCardiff
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
AtlantaCardiff
Score046
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance373 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaCardiff
Score5960
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739541
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2332
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaCardiff
Score3539
Museums within 10 km4161
Museums within 2 km of centre166
Share of museums within 2 km %3910
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaCardiff
Score4948
Drinking venues within 4 km531536
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284395
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5374
Nightclubs within 4 km4635
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaCardiff
Score3150
Protected land share 50 km %118
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10068
Park area within 2 km113 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Atlanta and Cardiff are level on 32.
AtlantaCardiff
Score3232
Tourist attractions within 2 km24
Park area within 2 km113 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaCardiff
Score4045
Notable places within 2 km3951
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaCardiff
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaCardiff
Score6754
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C7.7 °C to 20.2 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm49 mm to 87 mm
Dry months00
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaCardiff
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 30 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureAtlantaCardiff
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation225 m41 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaCardiff
City population498,715383,536
People per km²1,4332,734
Museums within 10 km279
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5655
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.