VacationSelector

Bologna or Miami?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BolognaMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
BolognaMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance74 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 7 points.7
BolognaMiami
Score5865
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 44 points.44
BolognaMiami
Score6723
Museums within 10 km5828
Museums within 2 km of centre436
Share of museums within 2 km %7421
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaMiami
Score5350
Drinking venues within 4 km720538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7453
Nightclubs within 4 km3063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 33 points.33
BolognaMiami
Score3972
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km119 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 11 points.11
BolognaMiami
Score5544
Tourist attractions within 2 km3214
Park area within 2 km119 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 18 points.18
BolognaMiami
Score6042
Notable places within 2 km12045
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 25 points.25
BolognaMiami
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 7 points.7
BolognaMiami
Score6774
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaMiami
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m2 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaMiami
City population387,971442,241
People per km²2,7543,046
Museums within 10 km6617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6239
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. 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.