VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
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 LauderdaleRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 47 points.47
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score8437
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km722
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 27 points.27
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score4572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1846
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 40 points.40
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score2060
Museums within 10 km1441
Museums within 2 km of centre620
Share of museums within 2 km %4349
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score3449
Drinking venues within 4 km259542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5670
Nightclubs within 4 km1840
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 39 points.39
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score8142
Protected land share 50 km %2010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5179
Park area within 2 km45 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 43 points.43
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score1962
Tourist attractions within 2 km227
Park area within 2 km45 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 51 points.51
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score051
Notable places within 2 km274
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 20 points.20
Fort LauderdaleRotterdam
Score7656
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleRotterdam
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
CuracaoCUR
2 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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 LauderdaleRotterdam
Official language–Dutch
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 or 911
Elevation11 m10 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleRotterdam
City population182,760664,311
People per km²1,8292,080
Museums within 10 km640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2577
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.