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Florence or Maastricht?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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Scoreboard

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

FlorenceMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Maastricht are level on 0.
FlorenceMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance78 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Florence leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceMaastricht
Score5948
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1522
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 29 points.29
FlorenceMaastricht
Score8253
Museums within 10 km13223
Museums within 2 km of centre9313
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Florence leads by 26 points.26
FlorenceMaastricht
Score5630
Drinking venues within 4 km818223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7382
Nightclubs within 4 km3413
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 1 points.1
FlorenceMaastricht
Score3837
Protected land share 50 km %919
Landscape blanket share 50 km %211
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 6 points.6
FlorenceMaastricht
Score5246
Tourist attractions within 2 km3015
Park area within 2 km86 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 39 points.39
FlorenceMaastricht
Score7536
Notable places within 2 km29232
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceMaastricht
Score6858
Price level global64.979.2
Daily budget€155€181
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 9 points.9
FlorenceMaastricht
Score6859
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 50 m
€83-161
PSA · 70 km
2 h 20 m
€155
EIN · 70 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 35 m
€129-161
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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

MeasureFlorenceMaastricht
Official languageItalianDutch
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 or 911
Elevation50 m49 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceMaastricht
City population360,930120,227
People per km²3,5282,000
Museums within 10 km14021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre6233

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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.