VacationSelector

London or Milan?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

London
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Milan
63
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

LondonMilan
Beaches & swimming. London and Milan are level on 0.
LondonMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km474
Coast distance43 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 18 points.18
LondonMilan
Score8870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4020
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 2 points.2
LondonMilan
Score7274
Museums within 10 km14887
Museums within 2 km of centre4955
Share of museums within 2 km %3363
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. London leads by 20 points.20
LondonMilan
Score9575
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3272,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4643
Nightclubs within 4 km31270
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 25 points.25
LondonMilan
Score4065
Protected land share 50 km %1630
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1411
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 2 points.2
LondonMilan
Score7577
Tourist attractions within 2 km8576
Park area within 2 km84 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. London leads by 15 points.15
LondonMilan
Score8974
Notable places within 2 km649266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 14 points.14
LondonMilan
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 1 points.1
LondonMilan
Score6364
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonMilan
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 40 km
AthensATH
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 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

MeasureLondonMilan
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
Elevation4 m138 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonMilan
City population8,799,7281,354,196
People per km²5,5987,453
Museums within 10 km21587
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre11679

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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. 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.