VacationSelector

Como or New York?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
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.

ComoNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
ComoNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km817
Coast distance156 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 70 points.70
ComoNew York
Score2595
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2596,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km738
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 14 points.14
ComoNew York
Score4660
Museums within 10 km9119
Museums within 2 km of centre631
Share of museums within 2 km %6726
Unesco sites within 50 km82
Nightlife. New York leads by 65 points.65
ComoNew York
Score2489
Drinking venues within 4 km2134,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1432,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6748
Nightclubs within 4 km1192
Nature & day trips. Como leads by 1 points.1
ComoNew York
Score4039
Protected land share 50 km %234
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km15 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 57 points.57
ComoNew York
Score1572
Tourist attractions within 2 km637
Park area within 2 km15 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. New York leads by 44 points.44
ComoNew York
Score3074
Notable places within 2 km22268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 25 points.25
ComoNew York
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Como and New York are level on 58.
ComoNew York
Score5858
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 43 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 50 m
€119-204
MXP · 34 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 34 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureComoNew York
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation201 m25 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoNew York
City population83,1848,804,190
People per km²2,2427,256
Museums within 10 km9157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km82
Distinct cuisines in the centre22132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.