VacationSelector

Cardiff or Catania?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage 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.

CardiffCatania
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 12 points.12
CardiffCatania
Score4658
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km85
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffCatania
Score6049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541637
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 20 points.20
CardiffCatania
Score3959
Museums within 10 km6134
Museums within 2 km of centre627
Share of museums within 2 km %1079
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 1 points.1
CardiffCatania
Score4847
Drinking venues within 4 km536537
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395403
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km3518
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 19 points.19
CardiffCatania
Score5031
Protected land share 50 km %1810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6861
Park area within 2 km88 hectares11 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 4 points.4
CardiffCatania
Score3236
Tourist attractions within 2 km425
Park area within 2 km88 hectares11 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 6 points.6
CardiffCatania
Score4539
Notable places within 2 km5137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 14 points.14
CardiffCatania
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 23 points.23
CardiffCatania
Score5477
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C15.8 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm9 mm to 83 mm
Dry months05
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffCatania
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
TurinTRN
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€37-118
CTA · 4 km
VeronaVRN, VBS
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
€72-129
CTA · 4 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
NaplesNAP
2 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
MaltaMLA
3 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
55 m
€52-68
CTA · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 5 m
€89-123
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
HeraklionHER
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
CTA · 4 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCardiffCatania
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m7 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffCatania
City population383,536311,584
People per km²2,7341,704
Museums within 10 km925
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5530
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.