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Durban
St. Petersburg, Florida

Durban or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Durban leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Durban leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: Durban leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Durban leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Durban
49match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

Wins on day trips 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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DurbanSt. Petersburg, Florida

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language-
CurrencyRand (ZAR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation22 m134 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population595,061258,308
People per km²2,634725
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 months

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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.