VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Philadelphia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score870
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km651
Coast distance0 km13 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score8877
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 24 points.24
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score3660
Museums within 10 km5089
Museums within 2 km of centre1748
Share of museums within 2 km %3454
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 12 points.12
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score7159
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5962
Nightclubs within 4 km3741
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score6449
Protected land share 50 km %814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2989
Park area within 2 km52 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score5853
Tourist attractions within 2 km2716
Park area within 2 km52 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score6343
Price level global72100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongPhiladelphia
Score7460
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm69 mm to 112 mm
Dry months40
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongPhiladelphia
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
BostonBOS, PSM
15 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ManilaMNL
2 h 0 m
€134-157
HKG · 25 km
16 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHong KongPhiladelphia
Official languageStandard Chinese
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m12 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongPhiladelphia
City population7,413,0701,603,797
People per km²4,339
Museums within 10 km3954
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7675
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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. 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.