VacationSelector

Cologne or Tampa?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CologneTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
CologneTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km4010
Coast distance256 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 18 points.18
CologneTampa
Score7254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 33 points.33
CologneTampa
Score6027
Museums within 10 km4713
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %5777
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 25 points.25
CologneTampa
Score6439
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6670
Nightclubs within 4 km9026
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 41 points.41
CologneTampa
Score7130
Protected land share 50 km %536
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km118 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 42 points.42
CologneTampa
Score7230
Tourist attractions within 2 km433
Park area within 2 km118 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km65
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 32 points.32
CologneTampa
Score5321
Notable places within 2 km8113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cologne leads by 17 points.17
CologneTampa
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 15 points.15
CologneTampa
Score6075
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€174-186
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 35 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCologneTampa
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation59 m30 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneTampa
City population1,024,621384,959
People per km²2,530848
Museums within 10 km406
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre8447
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.