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Barcelona or Fort Lauderdale?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 19 points.19
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score6584
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km207
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 45 points.45
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score9045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4118
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 48 points.48
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score6820
Museums within 10 km10514
Museums within 2 km of centre496
Share of museums within 2 km %4743
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 48 points.48
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score8234
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6156
Nightclubs within 4 km24518
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 31 points.31
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score5081
Protected land share 50 km %1020
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5151
Park area within 2 km49 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 46 points.46
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score6519
Tourist attractions within 2 km602
Park area within 2 km49 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 73 points.73
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score730
Notable places within 2 km2582
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 28 points.28
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 2 points.2
BarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Score7876
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm55 mm to 219 mm
Dry months50
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaFort Lauderdale
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 0 m
€1,610-1626
BCN · 13 km
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 41 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

MeasureBarcelonaFort Lauderdale
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation9 m11 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaFort Lauderdale
City population1,731,649182,760
People per km²17,0941,829
Museums within 10 km956
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre12825
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.