VacationSelector

Catania or Philadelphia?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Catania
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

CataniaPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km51
Coast distance1 km13 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 28 points.28
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score4977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6371,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1435
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score5960
Museums within 10 km3489
Museums within 2 km of centre2748
Share of museums within 2 km %7954
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score4759
Drinking venues within 4 km537930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km1841
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score3149
Protected land share 50 km %1014
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6189
Park area within 2 km11 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score3653
Tourist attractions within 2 km2516
Park area within 2 km11 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score3954
Notable places within 2 km3788
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 17 points.17
CataniaPhiladelphia
Score7760
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaPhiladelphia
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MaltaMLA
55 m
€52-68
CTA · 4 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
9 h 0 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€54-109
CTA · 4 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 140 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

MeasureCataniaPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaPhiladelphia
City population311,5841,603,797
People per km²1,7044,339
Museums within 10 km2554
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3075
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.