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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach
The cathedral from Piazza del Duomo, Milan
MilanThe cathedral from Piazza del Duomo

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Milan by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Honolulu or Milan?

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 Honolulu for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Milan for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Milan’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. Honolulu 91, Milan 20: Honolulu leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Milan 78: Milan leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, Milan 78: Milan leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Milan 66: Milan leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Milan 65: Honolulu leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Milan 91: Milan leads by 53 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Milan 55: Honolulu leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Milan 79: Milan leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu 60, Milan 92: Milan leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Milan 33: Milan leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Milan 82: Milan leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Milan 42: Honolulu leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Milan.

Your match

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

Honolulu
57match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Milan
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Milan in July

30 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Milan 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.

Milan's sunshine is measured 41 km from the centre, at Novara / Cameri.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Milano / Linate (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluMilan
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m138 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluMilan
City population350,9641,354,196
People per km²1,9817,453
Museums within 10 km1288
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.