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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Bologna or Havana?

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 Bologna for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose Havana for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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. Bologna 30, Havana 64: Havana leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Havana 40: Bologna leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna and Havana are level on 77.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Havana 60: Havana leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Havana 34: Bologna leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Havana 38: Bologna leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Havana 34: Bologna leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Havana 38: Bologna leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Havana 30: Bologna leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Havana 58: Havana leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Havana 74: Havana leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Havana 22: Bologna leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Havana.

Your match

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

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Havana 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaHavana
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation54 m59 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaHavana
City population387,9712,492,618
People per km²2,7543,423
Museums within 10 km6812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.