VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Frankfurt?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km74
Coast distance0 km327 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score4570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3711,160
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1831
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 49 points.49
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score2069
Museums within 10 km1479
Museums within 2 km of centre643
Share of museums within 2 km %4354
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score3459
Drinking venues within 4 km259931
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144691
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5674
Nightclubs within 4 km1856
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 17 points.17
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score8164
Protected land share 50 km %2028
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares124 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 49 points.49
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score1968
Tourist attractions within 2 km245
Park area within 2 km45 hectares124 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 61 points.61
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score061
Notable places within 2 km2129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 17 points.17
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Score7662
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C5 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm38 mm to 68 mm
Dry months01
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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleFrankfurt
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 13 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 7 km
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleFrankfurt
Official languageGerman
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m101 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleFrankfurt
City population182,760775,790
People per km²1,8293,124
Museums within 10 km653
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre2571
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.