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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Honolulu or Venice?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Venice for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Honolulu leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Venice 60: Honolulu leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, Venice 94: Venice leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Venice 27: Honolulu leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Venice 45: Honolulu leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Venice 86: Venice leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Venice 45: Honolulu leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Venice 68: Venice leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu 60, Venice 57: Honolulu leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Venice 20: Venice leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Venice 62: Venice leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Venice 40: Honolulu leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Venice.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Honolulu
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Venice
55match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluVenice
City population350,964250,369
People per km²1,981602
Museums within 10 km1252
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.