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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
Vilnius Cathedral, Vilnius
VilniusVilnius Cathedral

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Vilnius by Scotch Mist, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cardiff or Vilnius?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Vilnius for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vilnius’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, Vilnius 17: Cardiff leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Vilnius 50: Vilnius leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Vilnius 66: Vilnius leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Vilnius 46: Cardiff leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Vilnius 52: Cardiff leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Vilnius 60: Cardiff leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Vilnius 44: Cardiff leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Vilnius 68: Vilnius leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Vilnius 38: Cardiff leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Vilnius 64: Vilnius leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Vilnius 54: Cardiff leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Vilnius 34: Vilnius leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Vilnius.

Your match

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

Cardiff
Best match
52match

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

Vilnius
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Vilnius in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
90 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffVilnius
Official languageEnglishLithuanian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m98 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffVilnius
City population383,536619,405
People per km²2,7341,545
Museums within 10 km931
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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. 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.