VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Shanghai?

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.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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 LauderdaleShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 67 points.67
Fort LauderdaleShanghai
Score8417
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance0 km18 km
Water distance0 km18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleShanghai
Score2045
Museums within 10 km14108
Museums within 2 km of centre628
Share of museums within 2 km %4326
Unesco sites within 50 km00
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 39 points.39
Fort LauderdaleShanghai
Score8142
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5182
Park area within 2 km45 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 62 points.62
Fort LauderdaleShanghai
Score1981
Tourist attractions within 2 km286
Park area within 2 km45 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km010
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 51 points.51
Fort LauderdaleShanghai
Score051
Notable places within 2 km273
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 36 points.36
Fort LauderdaleShanghai
Score4379
Price level global10049
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleShanghai
Score7665
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleShanghai
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 45 m
€133-174
FLL · 7 km
14 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
2 h 50 m
€174-269
FLL · 7 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
€218-274
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
12 h 55 m
€606-798
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 7 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 41 km
23 h 45 m
€1,545-1873
2 stops
PVG · 33 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 LauderdaleShanghai
Official languagePutonghua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation11 m4 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleShanghai
City population182,76024,870,895
People per km²1,8293,922
Museums within 10 km644
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2564
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. 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.