VacationSelector

Catania or York?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

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

York
41
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.

CataniaYork
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaYork
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km52
Coast distance1 km50 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. York leads by 5 points.5
CataniaYork
Score4954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1431
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 13 points.13
CataniaYork
Score5946
Museums within 10 km3418
Museums within 2 km of centre2716
Share of museums within 2 km %7989
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Catania leads by 4 points.4
CataniaYork
Score4743
Drinking venues within 4 km537450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km1814
Nature & day trips. York leads by 2 points.2
CataniaYork
Score3133
Protected land share 50 km %1017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %6195
Park area within 2 km11 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 7 points.7
CataniaYork
Score3643
Tourist attractions within 2 km2513
Park area within 2 km11 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Catania and York are level on 39.
CataniaYork
Score3939
Notable places within 2 km3737
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 14 points.14
CataniaYork
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 21 points.21
CataniaYork
Score7756
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months51
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaYork
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 5 m
€44-56
CTA · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 5 m
€54-109
CTA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
€89-123
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 20 m
€95-118
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PisaPSA
1 h 35 m
€71-156
CTA · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureCataniaYork
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation7 m25 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaYork
City population311,584208,400
People per km²1,704766
Museums within 10 km2524
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3054
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.