VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Thessaloniki?

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.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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 LauderdaleThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score8455
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km74
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.5
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score4550
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1815
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score2049
Museums within 10 km1434
Museums within 2 km of centre622
Share of museums within 2 km %4365
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 33 points.33
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score3467
Drinking venues within 4 km2591,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5657
Nightclubs within 4 km1861
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 16 points.16
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score8165
Protected land share 50 km %2025
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5183
Park area within 2 km45 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 22 points.22
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score1941
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km45 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 56 points.56
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score056
Notable places within 2 km298
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score4374
Price level global10055.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 4 points.4
Fort LauderdaleThessaloniki
Score7672
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 10 m
€129-217
SKG · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 10 m
€138-200
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 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 2026-09 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 LauderdaleThessaloniki
Official languageGreek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleThessaloniki
City population182,760309,617
People per km²1,82916,042
Museums within 10 km631
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2545
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.