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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Delhi or Florence?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Delhi for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Delhi’s own page.

Choose Florence for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Delhi 4, Florence 14: Florence leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Florence 74: Delhi leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Florence 94: Florence leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Florence 42: Delhi leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Florence 58: Florence leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Florence 98: Florence leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Florence 45: Florence leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Florence 78: Florence leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Florence 72: Delhi leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Florence 35: Delhi leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Florence 58: Florence leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Florence 42: Florence leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Florence.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Delhi
53match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiFlorence
Official languageHindi, EnglishItalian
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation221 m50 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiFlorence
City population26,495,000360,930
People per km²18,9623,528
Museums within 10 km23141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.