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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Florence or Savannah?

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
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Savannah for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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, Savannah 55: Savannah leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Savannah 58: Florence leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Savannah 68: Florence leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Savannah 52: Savannah leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Savannah 48: Florence leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Savannah 60: Florence leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Savannah 50: Savannah leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Savannah 58: Florence leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Savannah 42: Florence leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Florence and Savannah are level on 35.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Savannah 40: Florence leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Savannah 40: Florence leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Savannah.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Savannah
51match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceSavannah
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 m15 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceSavannah
City population360,930147,780
People per km²3,528524
Museums within 10 km14119
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.