VacationSelector

London or Miami?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

LondonMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
LondonMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km4720
Coast distance43 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 23 points.23
LondonMiami
Score8865
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4029
Museums & heritage. London leads by 49 points.49
LondonMiami
Score7223
Museums within 10 km14828
Museums within 2 km of centre496
Share of museums within 2 km %3321
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 45 points.45
LondonMiami
Score9550
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4653
Nightclubs within 4 km31263
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 32 points.32
LondonMiami
Score4072
Protected land share 50 km %1616
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9748
Park area within 2 km84 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 31 points.31
LondonMiami
Score7544
Tourist attractions within 2 km8514
Park area within 2 km84 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. London leads by 47 points.47
LondonMiami
Score8942
Notable places within 2 km64945
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London leads by 11 points.11
LondonMiami
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 11 points.11
LondonMiami
Score6374
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months10
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonMiami
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
9 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 30 m
€103-188
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 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

MeasureLondonMiami
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
Elevation4 m2 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonMiami
City population8,799,728442,241
People per km²5,5983,046
Museums within 10 km21517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11639
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.