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Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise
A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio

Photos: Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License; Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Goreme or Havana?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Goreme for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Goreme’s own page.

Choose Havana for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Havana’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Goreme 3, Havana 64: Havana leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. Goreme 20, Havana 40: Havana leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Goreme 45, Havana 77: Havana leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Goreme 5, Havana 60: Havana leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Goreme 74, Havana 34: Goreme leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Goreme 70, Havana 38: Goreme leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Goreme 40, Havana 34: Goreme leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Goreme 40, Havana 38: Goreme leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Goreme 22, Havana 30: Havana leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Goreme and Havana are level on 58.
Live music & performing arts. Goreme 10, Havana 74: Havana leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Goreme 42, Havana 22: Goreme leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Goreme and Havana.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Goreme
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Havana
Best match
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Goreme's station stands 160 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Havana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre). Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGoremeHavana
Official languageTurkishSpanish
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Cuban Peso (CUP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112Police 106, ambulance 104, fire 105
Elevation1,100 m59 m
Main airportKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGoremeHavana
City population2,0002,492,618
People per km²203,423
Museums within 10 km512
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.