VacationSelector

Florence or Heidelberg?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

FlorenceHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Heidelberg are level on 0.
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance78 km406 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Florence leads by 12 points.12
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score5947
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1526
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 23 points.23
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score8259
Museums within 10 km13254
Museums within 2 km of centre9323
Share of museums within 2 km %7043
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Florence leads by 29 points.29
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score5627
Drinking venues within 4 km818201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7384
Nightclubs within 4 km348
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 36 points.36
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score3874
Protected land share 50 km %952
Landscape blanket share 50 km %222
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 9 points.9
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score5243
Tourist attractions within 2 km3029
Park area within 2 km86 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 39 points.39
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score7536
Notable places within 2 km29231
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 7 points.7
FlorenceHeidelberg
Score6861
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm45 mm to 80 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
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). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceHeidelberg
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€121-146
FRA · 69 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 69 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 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

MeasureFlorenceHeidelberg
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 m114 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceHeidelberg
City population360,930162,960
People per km²3,5281,496
Museums within 10 km14017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre6245

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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.