VacationSelector

Florence or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Florence
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
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.

FlorenceRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
FlorenceRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance78 km24 km
Water distance—24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceRotterdam
Score5972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1546
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceRotterdam
Score8260
Museums within 10 km13241
Museums within 2 km of centre9320
Share of museums within 2 km %7049
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Florence leads by 7 points.7
FlorenceRotterdam
Score5649
Drinking venues within 4 km818542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7370
Nightclubs within 4 km3440
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceRotterdam
Score3842
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km86 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceRotterdam
Score5262
Tourist attractions within 2 km3027
Park area within 2 km86 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 24 points.24
FlorenceRotterdam
Score7551
Notable places within 2 km29274
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceRotterdam
Score6858
Price level global64.979.2
Daily budget€155€181
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 12 points.12
FlorenceRotterdam
Score6856
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 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

MeasureFlorenceRotterdam
Official languageItalianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation50 m10 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceRotterdam
City population360,930664,311
People per km²3,5282,080
Museums within 10 km14040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre6277
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.