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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Key West or Victoria Falls?

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 Key West for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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. Key West 60, Victoria Falls 7: Key West leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Victoria Falls 24: Key West leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Victoria Falls 12: Key West leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Victoria Falls 8: Key West leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Victoria Falls 22: Key West leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Victoria Falls 38: Key West leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Victoria Falls 45: Key West leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Victoria Falls 18: Key West leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Victoria Falls 32: Victoria Falls leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Victoria Falls 10: Key West leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Victoria Falls 34: Key West leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Key West
Best match
44match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Key WestVictoria Falls

Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestVictoria Falls
Official language-English, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911999
Elevation4 m961 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestVictoria Falls
City population26,44433,060
People per km²1,407-
Museums within 10 km72
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.