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Florence or Granada?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Florence
55
match

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

Granada
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

FlorenceGranada
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Granada are level on 0.
FlorenceGranada
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance78 km48 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Granada leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceGranada
Score5967
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1534
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 34 points.34
FlorenceGranada
Score8248
Museums within 10 km13228
Museums within 2 km of centre9326
Share of museums within 2 km %7093
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Florence leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceGranada
Score5652
Drinking venues within 4 km818637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7378
Nightclubs within 4 km3446
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceGranada
Score3863
Protected land share 50 km %927
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10096
Park area within 2 km86 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceGranada
Score5256
Tourist attractions within 2 km3060
Park area within 2 km86 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 31 points.31
FlorenceGranada
Score7544
Notable places within 2 km29250
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 3 points.3
FlorenceGranada
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 6 points.6
FlorenceGranada
Score6874
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months27
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

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). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€156-246
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFlorenceGranada
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m693 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceGranada
City population360,930233,975
People per km²3,5282,659
Museums within 10 km14019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6262

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.