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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Florianopolis or Nashville?

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 Florianopolis for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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. Florianopolis 85, Nashville 14: Florianopolis leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Nashville 46: Florianopolis leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Nashville 55: Florianopolis leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Nashville 30: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Nashville 42: Nashville leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Nashville 30: Florianopolis leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Nashville 20: Florianopolis leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Nashville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisNashville
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation3 m182 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisNashville
City population587,486689,447
People per km²870506
Museums within 10 km1112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.