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Cairo or Florence?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Florence and the Arno, Florence
Florence

Photo: Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License

Your match

Cairo
50
match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CairoFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Florence leads by 4 points.4
Food & drink. Florence leads by 14 points.14
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 2 points.2
Nightlife. Cairo leads by 6 points.6
Nature & outdoors. Florence leads by 28 points.28
Day trips. Florence leads by 32 points.32
Good for families. Florence leads by 13 points.13
Getting around. Florence leads by 43 points.43
Shopping & style. Florence leads by 14 points.14
Affordability. Cairo leads by 60 points.60
Live music & performing arts. Florence leads by 8 points.8
Wellness & relaxation. Florence leads by 27 points.27
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Florence.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCairoFlorence
Daytime high36 °C32 °C
Night-time low23 °C19 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm32 mm
Sunshine12 hours a day11 hours a day
Daylight14 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure 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
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Where the figures come from

Florence's rainfall is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCairoFlorence
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
€280-302
CAI · 17 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 5 m
€267-335
CAI · 17 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
4 h 5 m
€245-328
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 55 m
€267-300
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MadridMAD
4 h 35 m
€274-412
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
EBA · 139 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 85 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureCairoFlorence
Official languageArabicItalian
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation23 m50 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoFlorence
City population9,801,536360,930
People per km²18,5643,528
Museums within 10 km48140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.