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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Liverpool or St. Pete Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, St. Pete Beach 40: Liverpool leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, St. Pete Beach 18: Liverpool leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, St. Pete Beach 28: Liverpool leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, St. Pete Beach 57: St. Pete Beach leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, St. Pete Beach 58: Liverpool leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, St. Pete Beach 30: Liverpool leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, St. Pete Beach 20: Liverpool leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, St. Pete Beach 32: Liverpool leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, St. Pete Beach 20: Liverpool leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Liverpool
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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.

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolSt. Pete Beach
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 m2 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolSt. Pete Beach
City population513,4418,879
People per km²4,592173
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.