VacationSelector

Liverpool or Rome?

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 with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
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.

LiverpoolRome
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 27 points.27
LiverpoolRome
Score6033
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km343
Coast distance2 km24 km
Water distance2 km24 km
Places to eat. Liverpool and Rome are level on 60.
LiverpoolRome
Score6060
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5422,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3210
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 41 points.41
LiverpoolRome
Score4384
Museums within 10 km23161
Museums within 2 km of centre1279
Share of museums within 2 km %5249
Unesco sites within 50 km27
Nightlife. Rome leads by 13 points.13
LiverpoolRome
Score6174
Drinking venues within 4 km9772,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6745
Nightclubs within 4 km7985
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 12 points.12
LiverpoolRome
Score5870
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6078
Park area within 2 km81 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 28 points.28
LiverpoolRome
Score5886
Tourist attractions within 2 km25126
Park area within 2 km81 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 49 points.49
LiverpoolRome
Score5099
Notable places within 2 km681,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 14 points.14
LiverpoolRome
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 17 points.17
LiverpoolRome
Score5471
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm21 mm to 114 mm
Dry months03
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
CataniaCTA
3 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 20 m
€60-112
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
PalermoPMO
3 h 5 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 10 m
€38-50
FCO · 23 km
MaltaMLA
3 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€41-89
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
CIA · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
FCO · 23 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

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 centre74 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 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 km31177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km27
Distinct cuisines in the centre4965
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. 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.