VacationSelector

Como or Manchester?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

ComoManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
ComoManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km810
Coast distance156 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 43 points.43
ComoManchester
Score2568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre259853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km735
Museums & heritage. Como leads by 4 points.4
ComoManchester
Score4642
Museums within 10 km923
Museums within 2 km of centre611
Share of museums within 2 km %6748
Unesco sites within 50 km82
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 38 points.38
ComoManchester
Score2462
Drinking venues within 4 km2131,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6777
Nightclubs within 4 km182
Nature & day trips. Como leads by 4 points.4
ComoManchester
Score4036
Protected land share 50 km %2317
Landscape blanket share 50 km %517
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km15 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 17 points.17
ComoManchester
Score1532
Tourist attractions within 2 km65
Park area within 2 km15 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 18 points.18
ComoManchester
Score3048
Notable places within 2 km2261
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 14 points.14
ComoManchester
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Como leads by 4 points.4
ComoManchester
Score5854
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months00
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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoManchester
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 30 m
€37-91
MXP · 34 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 34 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureComoManchester
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
Elevation201 m38 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoManchester
City population83,184547,627
People per km²2,2424,737
Museums within 10 km928
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km82
Distinct cuisines in the centre2263
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.