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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bologna or Tel Aviv?

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

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Tel Aviv 80: Bologna leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Tel Aviv 57: Bologna leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna and Tel Aviv are level on 52.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Tel Aviv 84: Bologna leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Tel Aviv 64: Bologna leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna and Tel Aviv are level on 55.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Tel Aviv 14: Bologna leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Tel Aviv 35: Bologna leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bologna
60match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
62match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaTel Aviv
Official languageItalianHebrew
CurrencyEuro (EUR)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation54 m5 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaTel Aviv
City population387,971467,875
People per km²2,7548,998
Museums within 10 km6898
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 months

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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. 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.

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.