VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Hamburg?

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.

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km716
Coast distance0 km22 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 28 points.28
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score4573
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3711,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1838
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 40 points.40
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score2060
Museums within 10 km1494
Museums within 2 km of centre650
Share of museums within 2 km %4353
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 34 points.34
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score3468
Drinking venues within 4 km2591,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5662
Nightclubs within 4 km18119
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 41 points.41
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score8140
Protected land share 50 km %2014
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %5199
Park area within 2 km45 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 41 points.41
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score1960
Tourist attractions within 2 km240
Park area within 2 km45 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 59 points.59
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score059
Notable places within 2 km2118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 17 points.17
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 21 points.21
Fort LauderdaleHamburg
Score7655
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm39 mm to 82 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleHamburg
MunichMUC
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
HAM · 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 2026-09 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 LauderdaleHamburg
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 m6 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleHamburg
City population182,7601,910,160
People per km²1,8292,530
Museums within 10 km677
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2583
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Fort Lauderdale or Hamburg somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.