VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

FrankfurtTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
FrankfurtTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance327 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 16 points.16
FrankfurtTampa
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 42 points.42
FrankfurtTampa
Score6927
Museums within 10 km7913
Museums within 2 km of centre4310
Share of museums within 2 km %5477
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 20 points.20
FrankfurtTampa
Score5939
Drinking venues within 4 km931324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km5626
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 34 points.34
FrankfurtTampa
Score6430
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km124 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 38 points.38
FrankfurtTampa
Score6830
Tourist attractions within 2 km453
Park area within 2 km124 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 40 points.40
FrankfurtTampa
Score6121
Notable places within 2 km12913
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 17 points.17
FrankfurtTampa
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 13 points.13
FrankfurtTampa
Score6275
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months11
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 13 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 5 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
RaleighRDU
8 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureFrankfurtTampa
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation101 m30 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtTampa
City population775,790384,959
People per km²3,124848
Museums within 10 km536
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre7147
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.