VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Rome?

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.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
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 LauderdaleRome
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 51 points.51
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score8433
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km73
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 15 points.15
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score4560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3712,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1810
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 64 points.64
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score2084
Museums within 10 km14161
Museums within 2 km of centre679
Share of museums within 2 km %4349
Unesco sites within 50 km07
Nightlife. Rome leads by 40 points.40
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score3474
Drinking venues within 4 km2592,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5645
Nightclubs within 4 km1885
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score8170
Protected land share 50 km %2019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5178
Park area within 2 km45 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 67 points.67
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score1986
Tourist attractions within 2 km2126
Park area within 2 km45 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 99 points.99
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score099
Notable places within 2 km21,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 5 points.5
Fort LauderdaleRome
Score7671
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm21 mm to 114 mm
Dry months03
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
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). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleRome
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€487-550
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
11 h 45 m
€893-1016
1 stop
FCO · 23 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 LauderdaleRome
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m21 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleRome
City population182,7602,748,109
People per km²1,8292,135
Museums within 10 km6177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Distinct cuisines in the centre2565
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.