VacationSelector

Cardiff or Miami?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

CardiffMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 49 points.49
CardiffMiami
Score4695
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km820
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 5 points.5
CardiffMiami
Score6065
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3229
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 16 points.16
CardiffMiami
Score3923
Museums within 10 km6128
Museums within 2 km of centre66
Share of museums within 2 km %1021
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Miami leads by 2 points.2
CardiffMiami
Score4850
Drinking venues within 4 km536538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7453
Nightclubs within 4 km3563
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 22 points.22
CardiffMiami
Score5072
Protected land share 50 km %1816
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6848
Park area within 2 km88 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 12 points.12
CardiffMiami
Score3244
Tourist attractions within 2 km414
Park area within 2 km88 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 3 points.3
CardiffMiami
Score4542
Notable places within 2 km5145
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffMiami
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 20 points.20
CardiffMiami
Score5474
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months00
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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Miami
No sunshine record

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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffMiami
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 55 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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

MeasureCardiffMiami
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation41 m2 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffMiami
City population383,536442,241
People per km²2,7343,046
Museums within 10 km917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5539
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.