VacationSelector

Liverpool or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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.

LiverpoolParis
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 60 points.60
LiverpoolParis
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km342
Coast distance2 km149 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 30 points.30
LiverpoolParis
Score6090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5424,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3233
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 33 points.33
LiverpoolParis
Score4376
Museums within 10 km23185
Museums within 2 km of centre1265
Share of museums within 2 km %5235
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Paris leads by 27 points.27
LiverpoolParis
Score6188
Drinking venues within 4 km9773,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6511,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6745
Nightclubs within 4 km79201
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 10 points.10
LiverpoolParis
Score5848
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %60100
Park area within 2 km81 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 17 points.17
LiverpoolParis
Score5875
Tourist attractions within 2 km2589
Park area within 2 km81 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 44 points.44
LiverpoolParis
Score5094
Notable places within 2 km68865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 8 points.8
LiverpoolParis
Score5462
Price level global84.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 12 points.12
LiverpoolParis
Score5466
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months01
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolParis
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
3 h 10 m
€130-199
ORY · 14 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€153-171
CDG · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLiverpoolParis
Official languageEnglishFrench
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation70 m27 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolParis
City population513,4412,103,778
People per km²4,59219,960
Museums within 10 km31251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre49169
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.