VacationSelector

Catania or Rotterdam?

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, 2 points apart

Catania
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

CataniaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 21 points.21
CataniaRotterdam
Score5837
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km522
Coast distance1 km24 km
Water distance1 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 23 points.23
CataniaRotterdam
Score4972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1446
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 1 points.1
CataniaRotterdam
Score5960
Museums within 10 km3441
Museums within 2 km of centre2720
Share of museums within 2 km %7949
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 2 points.2
CataniaRotterdam
Score4749
Drinking venues within 4 km537542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km1840
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
CataniaRotterdam
Score3142
Protected land share 50 km %1010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6179
Park area within 2 km11 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 26 points.26
CataniaRotterdam
Score3662
Tourist attractions within 2 km2527
Park area within 2 km11 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 12 points.12
CataniaRotterdam
Score3951
Notable places within 2 km3774
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 10 points.10
CataniaRotterdam
Score6858
Price level global64.979.2
Daily budget€155€181
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 21 points.21
CataniaRotterdam
Score7756
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaRotterdam
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€224-269
1 stop
RTM · 5 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 35 m
€133-162
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
3 h 30 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
3 h 15 m
no fares
REG · 80 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 35 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 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

MeasureCataniaRotterdam
Official languageItalianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaRotterdam
City population311,584664,311
People per km²1,7042,080
Museums within 10 km2540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre3077
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.