VacationSelector

Cardiff or Venice?

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.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

CardiffVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 23 points.23
CardiffVenice
Score4669
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km820
Coast distance2 km4 km
Water distance2 km4 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 15 points.15
CardiffVenice
Score6045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 33 points.33
CardiffVenice
Score3972
Museums within 10 km6157
Museums within 2 km of centre645
Share of museums within 2 km %1079
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 13 points.13
CardiffVenice
Score4835
Drinking venues within 4 km536342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7489
Nightclubs within 4 km353
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 33 points.33
CardiffVenice
Score5017
Protected land share 50 km %184
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6870
Park area within 2 km88 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 25 points.25
CardiffVenice
Score3257
Tourist attractions within 2 km472
Park area within 2 km88 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 38 points.38
CardiffVenice
Score4583
Notable places within 2 km51464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
CardiffVenice
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 12 points.12
CardiffVenice
Score5466
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm36 mm to 106 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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
TiranaTIA
3 h 5 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 35 m
€23-126
TSF · 26 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 55 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

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 centre8 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre5546
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.