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Fort Lauderdale or Venice?

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.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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 LauderdaleVenice
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 15 points.15
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score8469
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km720
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Fort Lauderdale and Venice are level on 45.
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score4545
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1810
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 52 points.52
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score2072
Museums within 10 km1457
Museums within 2 km of centre645
Share of museums within 2 km %4379
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Venice leads by 1 points.1
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score3435
Drinking venues within 4 km259342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5689
Nightclubs within 4 km183
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 64 points.64
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score8117
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5170
Park area within 2 km45 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 38 points.38
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score1957
Tourist attractions within 2 km272
Park area within 2 km45 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 83 points.83
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score083
Notable places within 2 km2464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 25 points.25
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 10 points.10
Fort LauderdaleVenice
Score7666
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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 LauderdaleVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleVenice
City population182,760250,369
People per km²1,829602
Museums within 10 km652
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2546
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.