VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Venice?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Frankfurt
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

FrankfurtVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
FrankfurtVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance327 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 25 points.25
FrankfurtVenice
Score7045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3110
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 3 points.3
FrankfurtVenice
Score6972
Museums within 10 km7957
Museums within 2 km of centre4345
Share of museums within 2 km %5479
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 24 points.24
FrankfurtVenice
Score5935
Drinking venues within 4 km931342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7489
Nightclubs within 4 km563
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 47 points.47
FrankfurtVenice
Score6417
Protected land share 50 km %284
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km124 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 11 points.11
FrankfurtVenice
Score6857
Tourist attractions within 2 km4572
Park area within 2 km124 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 22 points.22
FrankfurtVenice
Score6183
Notable places within 2 km129464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 8 points.8
FrankfurtVenice
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 4 points.4
FrankfurtVenice
Score6266
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months12
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 13 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 13 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

MeasureFrankfurtVenice
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation101 m2 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtVenice
City population775,790250,369
People per km²3,124602
Museums within 10 km5352
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre7146
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.