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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Havana or Nashville?

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 Havana for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Nashville for

  • food and drink
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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. Havana 64, Nashville 14: Havana leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Nashville 50: Havana leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Nashville 46: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Nashville 30: Havana leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Nashville 42: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Nashville 30: Havana leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Nashville 20: Havana leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Nashville.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on food and drink and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaNashville
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105911
Elevation59 m182 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaNashville
City population2,492,618689,447
People per km²3,423506
Museums within 10 km1212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.