VacationSelector

Helsinki or Venice?

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, level with your weighting

Helsinki
57
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

HelsinkiVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 9 points.9
HelsinkiVenice
Score6069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km15720
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 26 points.26
HelsinkiVenice
Score7145
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,005750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3810
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 23 points.23
HelsinkiVenice
Score4972
Museums within 10 km5757
Museums within 2 km of centre2345
Share of museums within 2 km %4079
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 21 points.21
HelsinkiVenice
Score5635
Drinking venues within 4 km807342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7589
Nightclubs within 4 km403
Nature & day trips. Helsinki leads by 25 points.25
HelsinkiVenice
Score4217
Protected land share 50 km %34
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5370
Park area within 2 km185 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 1 points.1
HelsinkiVenice
Score5857
Tourist attractions within 2 km2072
Park area within 2 km185 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 10 points.10
HelsinkiVenice
Score7383
Notable places within 2 km257464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 12 points.12
HelsinkiVenice
Score5668
Price level global81.664.9
Daily budget€184€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 18 points.18
HelsinkiVenice
Score4866
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months32
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 45 m
€212-264
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€78-139
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 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

MeasureHelsinkiVenice
Official languageFinnish, SwedishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation17 m2 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiVenice
City population694,392250,369
People per km²3,239602
Museums within 10 km7452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7846
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.