VacationSelector

Como or Paris?

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 with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
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.

ComoParis
Beaches & swimming. Como and Paris are level on 0.
ComoParis
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance156 km149 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 65 points.65
ComoParis
Score2590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2594,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km733
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 30 points.30
ComoParis
Score4676
Museums within 10 km9185
Museums within 2 km of centre665
Share of museums within 2 km %6735
Unesco sites within 50 km84
Nightlife. Paris leads by 64 points.64
ComoParis
Score2488
Drinking venues within 4 km2133,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1431,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6745
Nightclubs within 4 km1201
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 8 points.8
ComoParis
Score4048
Protected land share 50 km %2328
Landscape blanket share 50 km %526
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km15 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 60 points.60
ComoParis
Score1575
Tourist attractions within 2 km689
Park area within 2 km15 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 64 points.64
ComoParis
Score3094
Notable places within 2 km22865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 6 points.6
ComoParis
Score6862
Price level global64.973.7
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 8 points.8
ComoParis
Score5866
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm38 mm to 75 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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoParis
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 34 km
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 34 km
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 34 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
Pointe-a-pitrePTP
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 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

MeasureComoParis
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation201 m27 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoParis
City population83,1842,103,778
People per km²2,24219,960
Museums within 10 km9251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km84
Distinct cuisines in the centre22169

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.