VacationSelector

Florence or New York?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Florence
55
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
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.

FlorenceNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
FlorenceNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km017
Coast distance78 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 36 points.36
FlorenceNew York
Score5995
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2996,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1538
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceNew York
Score8260
Museums within 10 km132119
Museums within 2 km of centre9331
Share of museums within 2 km %7026
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. New York leads by 33 points.33
FlorenceNew York
Score5689
Drinking venues within 4 km8184,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5992,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7348
Nightclubs within 4 km34192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 1 points.1
FlorenceNew York
Score3839
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km86 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 20 points.20
FlorenceNew York
Score5272
Tourist attractions within 2 km3037
Park area within 2 km86 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 1 points.1
FlorenceNew York
Score7574
Notable places within 2 km292268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceNew York
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceNew York
Score6858
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
New York
No sunshine record

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceNew York
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 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

MeasureFlorenceNew York
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m25 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceNew York
City population360,9308,804,190
People per km²3,5287,256
Museums within 10 km140157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre62132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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.