VacationSelector

Florence or Philadelphia?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips 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.

FlorencePhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Philadelphia are level on 0.
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance78 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score5977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score8260
Museums within 10 km13289
Museums within 2 km of centre9348
Share of museums within 2 km %7054
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 3 points.3
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score5659
Drinking venues within 4 km818930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7362
Nightclubs within 4 km3441
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 11 points.11
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score3849
Protected land share 50 km %914
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km86 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score5253
Tourist attractions within 2 km3016
Park area within 2 km86 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 21 points.21
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score7554
Notable places within 2 km29288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 25 points.25
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 8 points.8
FlorencePhiladelphia
Score6860
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm69 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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A
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J
A
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O
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D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorencePhiladelphia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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

MeasureFlorencePhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorencePhiladelphia
City population360,9301,603,797
People per km²3,5284,339
Museums within 10 km14054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6275

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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. 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.