VacationSelector

Helsinki or Miami?

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, 1 point apart

Helsinki
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

HelsinkiMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 35 points.35
HelsinkiMiami
Score6095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km15720
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 6 points.6
HelsinkiMiami
Score7165
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,005898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3829
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 26 points.26
HelsinkiMiami
Score4923
Museums within 10 km5728
Museums within 2 km of centre236
Share of museums within 2 km %4021
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 6 points.6
HelsinkiMiami
Score5650
Drinking venues within 4 km807538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7553
Nightclubs within 4 km4063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 30 points.30
HelsinkiMiami
Score4272
Protected land share 50 km %316
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5348
Park area within 2 km185 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 14 points.14
HelsinkiMiami
Score5844
Tourist attractions within 2 km2014
Park area within 2 km185 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 31 points.31
HelsinkiMiami
Score7342
Notable places within 2 km25745
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Helsinki leads by 13 points.13
HelsinkiMiami
Score5643
Price level global81.6100
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 26 points.26
HelsinkiMiami
Score4874
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months30
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiMiami
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
15 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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 2026-08 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

MeasureHelsinkiMiami
Official languageFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation17 m2 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiMiami
City population694,392442,241
People per km²3,2393,046
Museums within 10 km7417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7839
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.