VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Lucerne?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
✓ Best match
45
match

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

Lucerne
33
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 LauderdaleLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km716
Coast distance0 km669 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 2 points.2
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score4547
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1825
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 20 points.20
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score2040
Museums within 10 km1423
Museums within 2 km of centre613
Share of museums within 2 km %4357
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 6 points.6
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score3428
Drinking venues within 4 km259202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5675
Nightclubs within 4 km1811
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 56 points.56
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score8125
Protected land share 50 km %207
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Lucerne leads by 19 points.19
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score1938
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Lucerne leads by 35 points.35
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score035
Notable places within 2 km229
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.8
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score4335
Price level global100110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 23 points.23
Fort LauderdaleLucerne
Score7653
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months00
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleLucerne
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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 LauderdaleLucerne
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m436 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleLucerne
City population182,76086,234
People per km²1,8292,963
Museums within 10 km614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2546
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.