VacationSelector

Bologna or Tampa?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

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

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BolognaTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
BolognaTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km210
Coast distance74 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 4 points.4
BolognaTampa
Score5854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2031
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 40 points.40
BolognaTampa
Score6727
Museums within 10 km5813
Museums within 2 km of centre4310
Share of museums within 2 km %7477
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaTampa
Score5339
Drinking venues within 4 km720324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km3026
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 9 points.9
BolognaTampa
Score3930
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km119 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 25 points.25
BolognaTampa
Score5530
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km119 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 39 points.39
BolognaTampa
Score6021
Notable places within 2 km12013
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 25 points.25
BolognaTampa
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
BolognaTampa
Score6775
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 40 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureBolognaTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaTampa
City population387,971384,959
People per km²2,754848
Museums within 10 km666
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6247
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.