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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Cardiff or Venice?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • beaches
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Venice leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Venice 60: Venice leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Venice 94: Venice leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Venice 27: Cardiff leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Venice 45: Cardiff leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Venice 86: Venice leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Venice 45: Cardiff leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Venice 68: Venice leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Venice 57: Venice leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Venice 20: Cardiff leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Venice 62: Venice leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Venice 40: Venice leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Venice.

Your match

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

Cardiff
52match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffVenice
City population383,536250,369
People per km²2,734602
Museums within 10 km952
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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. 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.

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.