VacationSelector

Florence or Vancouver?

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, 2 points apart

Florence
55
match

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

Vancouver
57
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.

FlorenceVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
FlorenceVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0109
Coast distance78 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 15 points.15
FlorenceVancouver
Score5974
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 48 points.48
FlorenceVancouver
Score8234
Museums within 10 km13227
Museums within 2 km of centre9315
Share of museums within 2 km %7056
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 1 points.1
FlorenceVancouver
Score5657
Drinking venues within 4 km818848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7371
Nightclubs within 4 km3444
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 39 points.39
FlorenceVancouver
Score3877
Protected land share 50 km %919
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km86 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 1 points.1
FlorenceVancouver
Score5253
Tourist attractions within 2 km3015
Park area within 2 km86 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 27 points.27
FlorenceVancouver
Score7548
Notable places within 2 km29263
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceVancouver
Score6854
Price level global64.984
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 15 points.15
FlorenceVancouver
Score6853
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceVancouver
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 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

MeasureFlorenceVancouver
Official languageItalianFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation50 m2 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceVancouver
City population360,930662,248
People per km²3,5285,759
Museums within 10 km14026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6285
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.