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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Liverpool or Rome?

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 Liverpool for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Rome for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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. Liverpool 22, Rome 50: Rome leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Rome 82: Rome leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Rome 99: Rome leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Rome 58: Liverpool leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Rome 58: Rome leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Rome 92: Rome leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Rome 50: Liverpool leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Rome 60: Liverpool leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Rome 72: Rome leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Rome 38: Liverpool leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Rome 68: Rome leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Rome 40: Rome leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Rome.

Your match

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

Liverpool
52match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 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

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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.

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolRome
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation70 m21 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolRome
City population513,4412,748,109
People per km²4,5922,135
Museums within 10 km31178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km27
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

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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.