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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Catania 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 Catania for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • 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. Catania 72, Nashville 14: Catania leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Nashville 62: Catania leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Nashville 50: Catania leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Nashville 46: Catania leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Nashville 52: Catania leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Nashville 30: Catania leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Catania and Nashville are level on 42.
Affordability. Catania 60, Nashville 30: Catania leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Nashville 20: Catania leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Nashville.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

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

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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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Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaNashville
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m182 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaNashville
City population311,584689,447
People per km²1,704506
Museums within 10 km2512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.