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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
Narikala Fortress above the old town, Tbilisi
TbilisiNarikala Fortress above the old town

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Tbilisi by ArtHouse Studio, Pexels License.

Cardiff or Tbilisi?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cardiff for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’s own page.

Choose Tbilisi for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tbilisi’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cardiff 30, Tbilisi 7: Cardiff leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Tbilisi 72: Tbilisi leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Tbilisi 62: Tbilisi leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Tbilisi 70: Tbilisi leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Tbilisi 58: Cardiff leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Tbilisi 77: Tbilisi leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Tbilisi 45: Cardiff leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Tbilisi 52: Cardiff leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Tbilisi 42: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Tbilisi 80: Tbilisi leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff and Tbilisi are level on 57.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Tbilisi 66: Tbilisi leads by 39 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Tbilisi.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Cardiff
52match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Tbilisi
Best match
57match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Tbilisi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
34 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cardiff has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Tbilisi: 1991-2020 normals, Tbilisi (13.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffTbilisi
Official languageEnglishGeorgian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Lari (GEL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m575 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsTbilisi International Airport (TBS)15 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffTbilisi
City population383,5361,331,485
People per km²2,7341,849
Museums within 10 km929
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.