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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Havana or New York?

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

  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose New York for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: Havana leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, New York 92: New York leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, New York 89: New York leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, New York 97: New York leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, New York 55: New York leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, New York 68: New York leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, New York 70: New York leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, New York 82: New York leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, New York 97: New York leads by 67 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, New York 12: Havana leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, New York 99: New York leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, New York 42: New York leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and New York.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping and food and drink 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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HavanaNew York

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaNew York
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105911
Elevation59 m25 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaNew York
City population2,492,6188,804,190
People per km²3,4237,256
Museums within 10 km12157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

Where else could you go?

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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.