VacationSelector

Florence or Fort Lauderdale?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score084
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km07
Coast distance78 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score5945
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1518
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 62 points.62
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score8220
Museums within 10 km13214
Museums within 2 km of centre936
Share of museums within 2 km %7043
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score5634
Drinking venues within 4 km818259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7356
Nightclubs within 4 km3418
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 43 points.43
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score3881
Protected land share 50 km %920
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km86 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 33 points.33
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score5219
Tourist attractions within 2 km302
Park area within 2 km86 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 75 points.75
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score750
Notable places within 2 km2922
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceFort Lauderdale
Score6876
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm55 mm to 219 mm
Dry months20
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceFort Lauderdale
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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

MeasureFlorenceFort Lauderdale
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m11 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceFort Lauderdale
City population360,930182,760
People per km²3,5281,829
Museums within 10 km1406
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6225
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.