VacationSelector

Liverpool or New York?

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

Your match

Liverpool
55
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

LiverpoolNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolNew York
Score6064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km3417
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 35 points.35
LiverpoolNew York
Score6095
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5426,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3238
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 17 points.17
LiverpoolNew York
Score4360
Museums within 10 km23119
Museums within 2 km of centre1231
Share of museums within 2 km %5226
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 28 points.28
LiverpoolNew York
Score6189
Drinking venues within 4 km9774,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6512,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6748
Nightclubs within 4 km79192
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 19 points.19
LiverpoolNew York
Score5839
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6069
Park area within 2 km81 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 14 points.14
LiverpoolNew York
Score5872
Tourist attractions within 2 km2537
Park area within 2 km81 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. New York leads by 24 points.24
LiverpoolNew York
Score5074
Notable places within 2 km68268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Liverpool leads by 11 points.11
LiverpoolNew York
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New York leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolNew York
Score5458
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm74 mm to 112 mm
Dry months00
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolNew York
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
BridgetownBGI
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FaroFAO
2 h 50 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
MaltaMLA
3 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureLiverpoolNew York
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation70 m25 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolNew York
City population513,4418,804,190
People per km²4,5927,256
Museums within 10 km31157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre49132
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.