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Fort Lauderdale or Madrid?

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.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
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 LauderdaleMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km74
Coast distance0 km305 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 38 points.38
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score4583
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3713,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1828
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 55 points.55
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score2075
Museums within 10 km1497
Museums within 2 km of centre659
Share of museums within 2 km %4361
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 47 points.47
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score3481
Drinking venues within 4 km2592,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1441,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5662
Nightclubs within 4 km18341
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 18 points.18
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score8163
Protected land share 50 km %2019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 58 points.58
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score1977
Tourist attractions within 2 km261
Park area within 2 km45 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 75 points.75
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score075
Notable places within 2 km2288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 4 points.4
Fort LauderdaleMadrid
Score7672
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months07
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleMadrid
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
BogotaBOG
3 h 35 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 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 LauderdaleMadrid
Official languageSpanish
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 m663 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleMadrid
City population182,7603,506,730
People per km²1,8295,801
Museums within 10 km688
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre25106
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.