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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Florence or Nashville?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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 and Nashville are level on 14.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Nashville 62: Florence leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Nashville 50: Florence leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Nashville 46: Florence leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Nashville 52: Florence leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Nashville 30: Florence leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Nashville 42: Florence leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Nashville 30: Florence leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Nashville 20: Florence leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Nashville.

Your match

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

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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
15 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceNashville
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m182 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceNashville
City population360,930689,447
People per km²3,528506
Museums within 10 km14112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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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. 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.