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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Atlanta or Rome?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Atlanta for

  • families
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Atlanta’s own page.

Choose Rome for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Atlanta 10, Rome 50: Rome leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Rome 82: Rome leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Rome 99: Rome leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Rome 58: Atlanta leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Rome 58: Atlanta leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Rome 92: Rome leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Rome 50: Atlanta leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Rome 60: Rome leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Rome 72: Rome leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Rome 38: Atlanta leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Rome 68: Rome leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Rome 40: Rome leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Rome.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Atlanta
49match

Wins on families and nightlife with your weighting.

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Atlanta has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaRome
Official language-Italian
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 centre242 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 km27178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.