VacationSelector

Catania or New York?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Catania
52
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

CataniaNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 6 points.6
CataniaNew York
Score5864
Swim season months53
Beaches 10 km517
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 46 points.46
CataniaNew York
Score4995
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6376,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1438
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 1 points.1
CataniaNew York
Score5960
Museums within 10 km34119
Museums within 2 km of centre2731
Share of museums within 2 km %7926
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. New York leads by 42 points.42
CataniaNew York
Score4789
Drinking venues within 4 km5374,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4032,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7548
Nightclubs within 4 km18192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 8 points.8
CataniaNew York
Score3139
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6169
Park area within 2 km11 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 36 points.36
CataniaNew York
Score3672
Tourist attractions within 2 km2537
Park area within 2 km11 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. New York leads by 35 points.35
CataniaNew York
Score3974
Notable places within 2 km37268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaNew York
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 19 points.19
CataniaNew York
Score7758
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm74 mm to 112 mm
Dry months50
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaNew York
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
MaltaMLA
55 m
€52-68
CTA · 4 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 0 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€229-272
LGA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 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

MeasureCataniaNew York
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m25 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaNew York
City population311,5848,804,190
People per km²1,7047,256
Museums within 10 km25157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre30132
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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). 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. 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.