VacationSelector

Liverpool or Philadelphia?

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

Your match

Liverpool
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 60 points.60
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km341
Coast distance2 km13 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score6077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5421,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score4360
Museums within 10 km2389
Museums within 2 km of centre1248
Share of museums within 2 km %5254
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 2 points.2
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score6159
Drinking venues within 4 km977930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6762
Nightclubs within 4 km7941
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 9 points.9
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score5849
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6089
Park area within 2 km81 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 5 points.5
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score5853
Tourist attractions within 2 km2516
Park area within 2 km81 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score5054
Notable places within 2 km6888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Liverpool leads by 11 points.11
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 6 points.6
LiverpoolPhiladelphia
Score5460
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolPhiladelphia
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BridgetownBGI
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
FaroFAO
2 h 50 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
MaltaMLA
3 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasureLiverpoolPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolPhiladelphia
City population513,4411,603,797
People per km²4,5924,339
Museums within 10 km3154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4975
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. 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.