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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Florence or Oaxaca?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Florence leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Oaxaca 74: Florence leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Oaxaca 40: Florence leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Oaxaca 65: Florence leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Oaxaca 40: Florence leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Oaxaca 55: Florence leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Oaxaca 62: Florence leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Oaxaca 38: Florence leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceOaxaca
Official languageItalianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m1,555 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceOaxaca
City population360,930258,913
People per km²3,5283,028
Museums within 10 km14110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42

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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.