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The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Hiroshima or St. Pete Beach?

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 Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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. Hiroshima 30, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Hiroshima 66, St. Pete Beach 40: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Hiroshima 60, St. Pete Beach 18: Hiroshima leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Hiroshima 45, St. Pete Beach 28: Hiroshima leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hiroshima 62, St. Pete Beach 57: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Hiroshima 80, St. Pete Beach 58: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Hiroshima 60, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Hiroshima 74, St. Pete Beach 30: Hiroshima leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Hiroshima 52, St. Pete Beach 20: Hiroshima leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Hiroshima 58, St. Pete Beach 32: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hiroshima 38, St. Pete Beach 20: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hiroshima 50, St. Pete Beach 42: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hiroshima and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches 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.

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHiroshimaSt. Pete Beach
Official languageJapanese-
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHiroshimaSt. Pete Beach
City population1,198,0218,879
People per km²1,324173
Museums within 10 km182
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.