VacationSelector

Cardiff or Florence?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CardiffFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffFlorence
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance2 km78 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 1 points.1
CardiffFlorence
Score6059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5411,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 43 points.43
CardiffFlorence
Score3982
Museums within 10 km61132
Museums within 2 km of centre693
Share of museums within 2 km %1070
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Florence leads by 8 points.8
CardiffFlorence
Score4856
Drinking venues within 4 km536818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7473
Nightclubs within 4 km3534
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 12 points.12
CardiffFlorence
Score5038
Protected land share 50 km %189
Landscape blanket share 50 km %152
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 20 points.20
CardiffFlorence
Score3252
Tourist attractions within 2 km430
Park area within 2 km88 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 30 points.30
CardiffFlorence
Score4575
Notable places within 2 km51292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
CardiffFlorence
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 14 points.14
CardiffFlorence
Score5468
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Florence
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffFlorence
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
BariBRI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 55 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCardiffFlorence
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 m50 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffFlorence
City population383,536360,930
People per km²2,7343,528
Museums within 10 km9140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5562
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.