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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Durban or Liverpool?

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 Durban for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Liverpool for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Liverpool’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. Durban 80, Liverpool 22: Durban leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Liverpool 48: Durban leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Liverpool 64: Liverpool leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Liverpool 66: Liverpool leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Liverpool 52: Durban leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Liverpool 64: Liverpool leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Liverpool 55: Durban leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Liverpool 68: Liverpool leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Liverpool 52: Liverpool leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Liverpool 50: Durban leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Liverpool 66: Liverpool leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Liverpool 22: Durban leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Liverpool.

Your match

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

Durban
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Liverpool
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanLiverpool
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation22 m70 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanLiverpool
City population595,061513,441
People per km²2,6344,592
Museums within 10 km131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.