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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florence or Hong Kong?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Hong Kong for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Hong Kong’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, Hong Kong 50: Hong Kong leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Hong Kong 90: Hong Kong leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Hong Kong 60: Florence leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Hong Kong 68: Hong Kong leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Hong Kong 80: Hong Kong leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Hong Kong 68: Florence leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Hong Kong 75: Hong Kong leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Hong Kong 97: Hong Kong leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Hong Kong 88: Hong Kong leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Hong Kong 27: Florence leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Hong Kong 55: Florence leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence and Hong Kong are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Hong Kong.

Your match

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

Florence
59match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceHong Kong
Official languageItalianStandard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation50 m7 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceHong Kong
City population360,9307,413,070
People per km²3,528-
Museums within 10 km14139
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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.