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Florence or Hamburg?

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.

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

FlorenceHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Hamburg are level on 0.
FlorenceHamburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km016
Coast distance78 km22 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceHamburg
Score5973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1538
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceHamburg
Score8260
Museums within 10 km13294
Museums within 2 km of centre9350
Share of museums within 2 km %7053
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 12 points.12
FlorenceHamburg
Score5668
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7362
Nightclubs within 4 km34119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 2 points.2
FlorenceHamburg
Score3840
Protected land share 50 km %914
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km86 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceHamburg
Score5260
Tourist attractions within 2 km3040
Park area within 2 km86 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 16 points.16
FlorenceHamburg
Score7559
Notable places within 2 km292118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceHamburg
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceHamburg
Score6855
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm39 mm to 82 mm
Dry months21
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
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1

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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceHamburg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 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

MeasureFlorenceHamburg
Official languageItalianGerman
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 m6 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceHamburg
City population360,9301,910,160
People per km²3,5282,530
Museums within 10 km14077
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6283

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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.