VacationSelector

Bologna or Verona?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Bologna if the trip is built around eating and evenings out: a wider range of kitchens near the centre, more places to drink and more nightclubs, plus more museums for a wet afternoon.

Choose Verona if you are travelling with children: more tourist attractions packed near the centre, and 4 theme parks within reach where Bologna has none.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BolognaVerona
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Verona are level on 0.
BolognaVerona
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km22
Coast distance74 km104 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 15 points.15
BolognaVerona
Score5843
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2013
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 11 points.11
BolognaVerona
Score6756
Museums within 10 km5820
Museums within 2 km of centre4319
Share of museums within 2 km %7495
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 13 points.13
BolognaVerona
Score5340
Drinking venues within 4 km720416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7465
Nightclubs within 4 km309
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaVerona
Score3936
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 14 points.14
BolognaVerona
Score5569
Tourist attractions within 2 km3262
Park area within 2 km119 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaVerona
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12082
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna and Verona are level on 68.
BolognaVerona
Score6868
Price level global64.964.9
Daily budget€155€155
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 2 points.2
BolognaVerona
Score6765
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months51
0255075100

Where they differ

Bologna has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a wider range of kitchens, about twice as many places to drink and three times as many nightclubs, most of them central. It also has about three times as many museums and more notable places within walking distance.

Verona has about twice as many tourist attractions near the centre and 4 theme parks within reach where Bologna has none. It also sits within day-trip reach of 5 UNESCO-listed places against Bologna's 3.

Where they are alike

Neither city is a swimming destination. Each has 2 beaches within reach, and neither gets a month of sea at 21°C or more, so either trip is planned around streets rather than water.

The weather year follows nearly the same shape, from 7°C in winter to 30-32°C in summer. Countryside access is modest in both: 9% of the land around Verona is protected, only slightly more than around Bologna, so nature days take planning either way.

Which traveller are you?

A traveller who plans days around meals and evenings should take Bologna: a wider range of kitchens near the centre, more places to drink and more nightclubs, and most of them close enough to walk between.

Families are better served in Verona, where more tourist attractions sit near the centre and 4 theme parks lie within reach against none for Bologna, though Bologna keeps more park space near the centre for younger children.

Anyone travelling for museums and old buildings will find more of them in Bologna, and more notable places within walking distance; Verona answers with 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 3.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information: the figure is a national price level, so it is identical by construction and says nothing about which city costs more. The €155 daily budget beside it is that same national estimate, not a measurement of either place.

Verona's family advantage rests partly on 4 theme parks within reach, which means days spent travelling out of the city; Bologna keeps more park space near the centre instead. And both list 2 beaches nearby without a month of sea at 21°C or more, so neither is a swimming trip.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
4
3
3

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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bologna is the better pick from May to August: daytime highs climb from 24°C to 32°C and each of those months stays at 50mm of rain or less, so long days out are rarely interrupted.

Verona shares the late-spring peak but is wetter through it, with April and June each near 70mm, and its summer tops out around 30°C. Both cities turn wet in September, 75mm in Bologna against 85mm in Verona.

Getting there

Flying fromBolognaVerona
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 30 m
€83-129
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
€85-160
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
€96-199
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€74-144
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 96 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 106 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
MaleMLE
9 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 10 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBolognaVerona
Official languageItalianItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m59 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaVerona
City population387,971255,588
People per km²2,7541,285
Museums within 10 km6618
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre6235

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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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.