VacationSelector

Como or 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.

York
✓ Best match
41
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

ComoYork
Beaches & swimming. Como and York are level on 0.
ComoYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance156 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. York leads by 29 points.29
ComoYork
Score2554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre259361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km731
Museums & heritage. Como and York are level on 46.
ComoYork
Score4646
Museums within 10 km918
Museums within 2 km of centre616
Share of museums within 2 km %6789
Unesco sites within 50 km82
Nightlife. York leads by 19 points.19
ComoYork
Score2443
Drinking venues within 4 km213450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6778
Nightclubs within 4 km114
Nature & day trips. Como leads by 7 points.7
ComoYork
Score4033
Protected land share 50 km %2317
Landscape blanket share 50 km %516
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km15 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 28 points.28
ComoYork
Score1543
Tourist attractions within 2 km613
Park area within 2 km15 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. York leads by 9 points.9
ComoYork
Score3039
Notable places within 2 km2237
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 14 points.14
ComoYork
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Como leads by 2 points.2
ComoYork
Score5856
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
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
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoYork
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 34 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 55 m
€36-88
MXP · 34 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€54-129
BGY · 51 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
3 h 30 m
no fares
BGY · 51 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureComoYork
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 m25 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoYork
City population83,184208,400
People per km²2,242766
Museums within 10 km924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km82
Distinct cuisines in the centre2254

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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.