VacationSelector

Atlanta or Catania?

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 and nightlife with your weighting.

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AtlantaCatania
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
AtlantaCatania
Score058
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km05
Coast distance373 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaCatania
Score5949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739637
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2314
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 24 points.24
AtlantaCatania
Score3559
Museums within 10 km4134
Museums within 2 km of centre1627
Share of museums within 2 km %3979
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 2 points.2
AtlantaCatania
Score4947
Drinking venues within 4 km531537
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284403
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5375
Nightclubs within 4 km4618
Nature & day trips. Atlanta and Catania are level on 31.
AtlantaCatania
Score3131
Protected land share 50 km %110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km113 hectares11 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaCatania
Score3236
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km113 hectares11 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Atlanta leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaCatania
Score4039
Notable places within 2 km3937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaCatania
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaCatania
Score6777
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C15.8 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4

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). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaCatania
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
9 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
NaplesNAP
10 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 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

MeasureAtlantaCatania
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 m7 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaCatania
City population498,715311,584
People per km²1,4331,704
Museums within 10 km2725
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre5630
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. 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.