VacationSelector

Florence or Manchester?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

FlorenceManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
FlorenceManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance78 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 9 points.9
FlorenceManchester
Score5968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 40 points.40
FlorenceManchester
Score8242
Museums within 10 km13223
Museums within 2 km of centre9311
Share of museums within 2 km %7048
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 6 points.6
FlorenceManchester
Score5662
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7377
Nightclubs within 4 km3482
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 2 points.2
FlorenceManchester
Score3836
Protected land share 50 km %917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %217
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km86 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 20 points.20
FlorenceManchester
Score5232
Tourist attractions within 2 km305
Park area within 2 km86 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 27 points.27
FlorenceManchester
Score7548
Notable places within 2 km29261
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceManchester
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceManchester
Score6854
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm51 mm to 95 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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Manchester
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
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceManchester
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€352-493
2 stops
MAN · 15 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureFlorenceManchester
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation50 m38 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceManchester
City population360,930547,627
People per km²3,5284,737
Museums within 10 km14028
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6263
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.