VacationSelector

Bologna or Valencia?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BolognaValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
BolognaValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km212
Coast distance74 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
BolognaValencia
Score5878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2033
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 12 points.12
BolognaValencia
Score6755
Museums within 10 km5859
Museums within 2 km of centre4326
Share of museums within 2 km %7444
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
BolognaValencia
Score5370
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7463
Nightclubs within 4 km30108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 14 points.14
BolognaValencia
Score3953
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km119 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 13 points.13
BolognaValencia
Score5542
Tourist attractions within 2 km3212
Park area within 2 km119 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 8 points.8
BolognaValencia
Score6052
Notable places within 2 km12078
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
BolognaValencia
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
BolognaValencia
Score6784
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months58
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
CasablancaCMN
3 h 5 m
€180-238
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureBolognaValencia
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m15 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaValencia
City population387,971840,792
People per km²2,7546,242
Museums within 10 km6646
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6292
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.