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Florence or Thessaloniki?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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.

FlorenceThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance78 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 9 points.9
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score5950
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1515
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 33 points.33
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score8249
Museums within 10 km13234
Museums within 2 km of centre9322
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score5667
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7357
Nightclubs within 4 km3461
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.27
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score3865
Protected land share 50 km %925
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km86 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score5241
Tourist attractions within 2 km3016
Park area within 2 km86 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 19 points.19
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score7556
Notable places within 2 km29298
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score6874
Price level global64.955.8
Daily budget€155€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceThessaloniki
Score6872
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months29
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
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
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceThessaloniki
AthensATH
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureFlorenceThessaloniki
Official languageItalianGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m6 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceThessaloniki
City population360,930309,617
People per km²3,52816,042
Museums within 10 km14031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6245
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.