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Fort Lauderdale or Hong Kong?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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 LauderdaleHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score8487
Swim season months128
Beaches 10 km765
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 43 points.43
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score4588
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3714,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1832
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 16 points.16
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score2036
Museums within 10 km1450
Museums within 2 km of centre617
Share of museums within 2 km %4334
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 37 points.37
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score3471
Drinking venues within 4 km2591,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1441,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5659
Nightclubs within 4 km1837
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 17 points.17
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score8164
Protected land share 50 km %208
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5129
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 39 points.39
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score1958
Tourist attractions within 2 km227
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 69 points.69
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score069
Notable places within 2 km2204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score4363
Price level global10072
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 2 points.2
Fort LauderdaleHong Kong
Score7674
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months04
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleHong Kong
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
€218-274
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 7 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 45 m
€133-174
FLL · 7 km
16 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 0 m
€292-332
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
15 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 41 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 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 LauderdaleHong Kong
Official languageStandard Chinese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation11 m7 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleHong Kong
City population182,7607,413,070
People per km²1,829
Museums within 10 km639
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2576
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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. 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.