VacationSelector

Florence or Sydney?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

FlorenceSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
FlorenceSydney
Score060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km0160
Coast distance78 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 19 points.19
FlorenceSydney
Score5978
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2992,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1531
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 31 points.31
FlorenceSydney
Score8251
Museums within 10 km13244
Museums within 2 km of centre9320
Share of museums within 2 km %7045
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 19 points.19
FlorenceSydney
Score5675
Drinking venues within 4 km8182,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5991,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7369
Nightclubs within 4 km34120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 20 points.20
FlorenceSydney
Score3858
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10052
Park area within 2 km86 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 12 points.12
FlorenceSydney
Score5264
Tourist attractions within 2 km3037
Park area within 2 km86 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 15 points.15
FlorenceSydney
Score7560
Notable places within 2 km292123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 18 points.18
FlorenceSydney
Score6850
Price level global64.990.2
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceSydney
Score6881
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceSydney
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureFlorenceSydney
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation50 m6 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceSydney
City population360,9305,450,496
People per km²3,528449
Museums within 10 km14038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6279
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.