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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Havana or Rome?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Rome for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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, Rome 50: Havana leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Rome 82: Rome leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Rome 99: Rome leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Rome 58: Havana leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Rome 58: Rome leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Rome 92: Rome leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Rome 50: Rome leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Rome 60: Rome leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Rome 72: Rome leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Rome 38: Havana leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Rome 68: Havana leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Rome 40: Rome leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Rome.

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.

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips 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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaRome
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112
Elevation59 m21 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaRome
City population2,492,6182,748,109
People per km²3,4232,135
Museums within 10 km12178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.