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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florence or Fort Lauderdale?

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 Florence for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Fort Lauderdale for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Fort Lauderdale’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. Florence 14, Fort Lauderdale 88: Fort Lauderdale leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Fort Lauderdale 47: Florence leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Fort Lauderdale 28: Florence leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Fort Lauderdale 52: Fort Lauderdale leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Fort Lauderdale 62: Fort Lauderdale leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Fort Lauderdale 58: Florence leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Fort Lauderdale 66: Fort Lauderdale leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Fort Lauderdale 32: Florence leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Fort Lauderdale 52: Florence leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Fort Lauderdale 32: Florence leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Fort Lauderdale 42: Florence leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Fort Lauderdale 40: Florence leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Fort Lauderdale.

Your match

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

Florence
Best match
59match

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

Fort Lauderdale
50match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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. 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).

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 centre46 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 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 km1416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.

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.