VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Lyon?

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.

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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 LauderdaleLyon
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km726
Coast distance0 km253 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 34 points.34
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score4579
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3711,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1840
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 35 points.35
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score2055
Museums within 10 km1453
Museums within 2 km of centre625
Share of museums within 2 km %4347
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 24 points.24
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score3458
Drinking venues within 4 km259866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5671
Nightclubs within 4 km1847
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 48 points.48
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score8133
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 40 points.40
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score1959
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km45 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 54 points.54
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score054
Notable places within 2 km286
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 19 points.19
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 12 points.12
Fort LauderdaleLyon
Score7664
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
€109-165
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 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 LauderdaleLyon
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m160 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleLyon
City population182,760519,127
People per km²1,82910,838
Museums within 10 km642
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre25148
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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.