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Durban
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Durban or Turin?

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
  • families

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

Choose Turin for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Durban leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Turin 81: Turin leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Turin 78: Turin leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Turin 50: Turin leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Turin 80: Turin leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Turin 84: Turin leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Turin 57: Durban leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Turin 68: Turin leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Turin 58: Turin leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Turin 58: Durban leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Turin 65: Turin leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Turin 40: Turin leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Turin.

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.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on getting around 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.

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

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Turin 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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDurbanTurin
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageItalian
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m239 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanTurin
City population595,061841,600
People per km²2,6346,474
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.