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Yellow colonial houses in the walled city, Cartagena
CartagenaYellow colonial houses in the walled city
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Cartagena by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cartagena or Nashville?

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 Cartagena for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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. Cartagena 70, Nashville 14: Cartagena leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Cartagena and Nashville are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Cartagena 68, Nashville 50: Cartagena leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Cartagena and Nashville are level on 70.
Nature & outdoors. Cartagena and Nashville are level on 46.
Day trips. Cartagena 33, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Cartagena 40, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Cartagena 54, Nashville 30: Cartagena leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Cartagena 48, Nashville 42: Cartagena leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Cartagena 60, Nashville 30: Cartagena leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cartagena 40, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cartagena 40, Nashville 20: Cartagena leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cartagena and Nashville.

Your match

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

Cartagena
Best match
53match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cartagena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
124 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CartagenaNashville

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cartagena: 1991-2020 normals, Cartagena / Rafael Nunez (3.1 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCartagenaNashville
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number123911
Elevation2 m182 m
Main airportRafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)2 km from centre26 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCartagenaNashville
City population914,552689,447
People per km²1,599506
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.