VacationSelector

Atlanta or Rome?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

AtlantaRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
AtlantaRome
Score033
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance373 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaRome
Score5960
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7392,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2310
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 49 points.49
AtlantaRome
Score3584
Museums within 10 km41161
Museums within 2 km of centre1679
Share of museums within 2 km %3949
Unesco sites within 50 km07
Nightlife. Rome leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaRome
Score4974
Drinking venues within 4 km5312,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5345
Nightclubs within 4 km4685
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 39 points.39
AtlantaRome
Score3170
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km113 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 54 points.54
AtlantaRome
Score3286
Tourist attractions within 2 km2126
Park area within 2 km113 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 59 points.59
AtlantaRome
Score4099
Notable places within 2 km391,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaRome
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaRome
Score6771
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm21 mm to 114 mm
Dry months03
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
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). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaRome
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
Addis AbabaADD
15 h 15 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 30 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 45 m
€893-1016
1 stop
FCO · 23 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

MeasureAtlantaRome
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 m21 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaRome
City population498,7152,748,109
People per km²1,4332,135
Museums within 10 km27177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Distinct cuisines in the centre5665
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.