VacationSelector

Como or Philadelphia?

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.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

ComoPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Como and Philadelphia are level on 0.
ComoPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance156 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 52 points.52
ComoPhiladelphia
Score2577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2591,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km735
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 14 points.14
ComoPhiladelphia
Score4660
Museums within 10 km989
Museums within 2 km of centre648
Share of museums within 2 km %6754
Unesco sites within 50 km81
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 35 points.35
ComoPhiladelphia
Score2459
Drinking venues within 4 km213930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6762
Nightclubs within 4 km141
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 9 points.9
ComoPhiladelphia
Score4049
Protected land share 50 km %2314
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km15 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 38 points.38
ComoPhiladelphia
Score1553
Tourist attractions within 2 km616
Park area within 2 km15 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 24 points.24
ComoPhiladelphia
Score3054
Notable places within 2 km2288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 25 points.25
ComoPhiladelphia
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
ComoPhiladelphia
Score5860
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 55 m
€36-88
MXP · 34 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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 · 140 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

MeasureComoPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoPhiladelphia
City population83,1841,603,797
People per km²2,2424,339
Museums within 10 km954
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km81
Distinct cuisines in the centre2275

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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. 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.