VacationSelector

Bologna or York?

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.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BolognaYork
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and York are level on 0.
BolognaYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km22
Coast distance74 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 4 points.4
BolognaYork
Score5854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2031
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 21 points.21
BolognaYork
Score6746
Museums within 10 km5818
Museums within 2 km of centre4316
Share of museums within 2 km %7489
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 10 points.10
BolognaYork
Score5343
Drinking venues within 4 km720450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7478
Nightclubs within 4 km3014
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaYork
Score3933
Protected land share 50 km %717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %116
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km119 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 12 points.12
BolognaYork
Score5543
Tourist attractions within 2 km3213
Park area within 2 km119 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 21 points.21
BolognaYork
Score6039
Notable places within 2 km12037
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 14 points.14
BolognaYork
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 11 points.11
BolognaYork
Score6756
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm39 mm to 66 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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaYork
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€74-144
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
€96-199
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CasablancaCMN
3 h 5 m
€180-238
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureBolognaYork
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation54 m25 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaYork
City population387,971208,400
People per km²2,754766
Museums within 10 km6624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6254

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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. 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.