VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or New York?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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 LauderdaleNew York
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 20 points.20
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score8464
Swim season months123
Beaches 10 km717
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 50 points.50
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score4595
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3716,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1838
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 40 points.40
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score2060
Museums within 10 km14119
Museums within 2 km of centre631
Share of museums within 2 km %4326
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New York leads by 55 points.55
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score3489
Drinking venues within 4 km2594,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1442,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5648
Nightclubs within 4 km18192
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 42 points.42
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score8139
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5169
Park area within 2 km45 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 53 points.53
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score1972
Tourist attractions within 2 km237
Park area within 2 km45 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. New York leads by 74 points.74
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score074
Notable places within 2 km2268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Fort Lauderdale and New York are level on 43.
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 18 points.18
Fort LauderdaleNew York
Score7658
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleNew York
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
RaleighRDU
2 h 0 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€201-279
1 stop
LGA · 13 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 45 m
€93-112
FLL · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 45 m
€133-174
FLL · 7 km
3 h 20 m
€201-385
LGA · 13 km
CharlotteCLT
1 h 50 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€168-247
LGA · 13 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
NassauNAS
1 h 0 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 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 LauderdaleNew York
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m25 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleNew York
City population182,7608,804,190
People per km²1,8297,256
Museums within 10 km6157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre25132
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.