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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Clearwater or Havana?

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 Clearwater for

  • families
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Havana for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’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. Clearwater 90, Havana 64: Clearwater leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Havana 40: Havana leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Havana 77: Havana leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Havana 60: Havana leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Havana 34: Clearwater leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Havana 38: Clearwater leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Havana 34: Clearwater leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Havana 38: Havana leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Havana 30: Havana leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Havana 58: Havana leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Havana 74: Havana leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Havana 22: Clearwater leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Havana.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Clearwater
45match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Havana
47match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Clearwater has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Havana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterHavana
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation9 m59 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterHavana
City population117,2922,492,618
People per km²1,1543,423
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.