VacationSelector

Barcelona or Tampa?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BarcelonaTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 10 points.10
BarcelonaTampa
Score6575
Swim season months38
Beaches 10 km2010
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 36 points.36
BarcelonaTampa
Score9054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4131
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 41 points.41
BarcelonaTampa
Score6827
Museums within 10 km10513
Museums within 2 km of centre4910
Share of museums within 2 km %4777
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 43 points.43
BarcelonaTampa
Score8239
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6170
Nightclubs within 4 km24526
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 20 points.20
BarcelonaTampa
Score5030
Protected land share 50 km %106
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5172
Park area within 2 km49 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 35 points.35
BarcelonaTampa
Score6530
Tourist attractions within 2 km603
Park area within 2 km49 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 52 points.52
BarcelonaTampa
Score7321
Notable places within 2 km25813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 28 points.28
BarcelonaTampa
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 3 points.3
BarcelonaTampa
Score7875
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months51
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 5 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 55 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureBarcelonaTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaTampa
City population1,731,649384,959
People per km²17,094848
Museums within 10 km956
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre12847
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months8 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.