VacationSelector

Barcelona or Miami?

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 museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BarcelonaMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 30 points.30
BarcelonaMiami
Score6595
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km2020
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 25 points.25
BarcelonaMiami
Score9065
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4129
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 45 points.45
BarcelonaMiami
Score6823
Museums within 10 km10528
Museums within 2 km of centre496
Share of museums within 2 km %4721
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 32 points.32
BarcelonaMiami
Score8250
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6153
Nightclubs within 4 km24563
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 22 points.22
BarcelonaMiami
Score5072
Protected land share 50 km %1016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5148
Park area within 2 km49 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 21 points.21
BarcelonaMiami
Score6544
Tourist attractions within 2 km6014
Park area within 2 km49 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 31 points.31
BarcelonaMiami
Score7342
Notable places within 2 km25845
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 28 points.28
BarcelonaMiami
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaMiami
Score7874
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Miami
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
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Miami
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
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 40 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBarcelonaMiami
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 m2 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaMiami
City population1,731,649442,241
People per km²17,0943,046
Museums within 10 km9517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre12839
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.