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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Florence or Lisbon?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Lisbon for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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, Lisbon 50: Lisbon leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Lisbon 78: Florence leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Lisbon 82: Florence leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Lisbon 62: Lisbon leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Lisbon 66: Florence leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Lisbon 60: Florence leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Lisbon 55: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Lisbon 36: Florence leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Lisbon.

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.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceLisbon
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m100 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceLisbon
City population360,930545,796
People per km²3,5285,453
Museums within 10 km14180
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.