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Fort Lauderdale or Valencia?

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.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
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 LauderdaleValencia
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 17 points.17
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score8467
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km712
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 33 points.33
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score4578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3711,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1833
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 35 points.35
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score2055
Museums within 10 km1459
Museums within 2 km of centre626
Share of museums within 2 km %4344
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 36 points.36
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score3470
Drinking venues within 4 km2591,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5663
Nightclubs within 4 km18108
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 28 points.28
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score8153
Protected land share 50 km %2010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5164
Park area within 2 km45 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 23 points.23
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score1942
Tourist attractions within 2 km212
Park area within 2 km45 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 52 points.52
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score052
Notable places within 2 km278
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
Fort LauderdaleValencia
Score7684
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 35 m
€56-140
VLC · 9 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 LauderdaleValencia
Official languageSpanish
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
Elevation11 m15 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleValencia
City population182,760840,792
People per km²1,8296,242
Museums within 10 km646
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2592
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.