VacationSelector

London or Tampa?

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 sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LondonTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
LondonTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km4710
Coast distance43 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 34 points.34
LondonTampa
Score8854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4031
Museums & heritage. London leads by 45 points.45
LondonTampa
Score7227
Museums within 10 km14813
Museums within 2 km of centre4910
Share of museums within 2 km %3377
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 56 points.56
LondonTampa
Score9539
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4670
Nightclubs within 4 km31226
Nature & day trips. London leads by 10 points.10
LondonTampa
Score4030
Protected land share 50 km %166
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9772
Park area within 2 km84 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 45 points.45
LondonTampa
Score7530
Tourist attractions within 2 km853
Park area within 2 km84 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. London leads by 68 points.68
LondonTampa
Score8921
Notable places within 2 km64913
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London leads by 11 points.11
LondonTampa
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 12 points.12
LondonTampa
Score6375
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months11
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 20 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
CincinnatiCVG, LUK
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureLondonTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonTampa
City population8,799,728384,959
People per km²5,598848
Museums within 10 km2156
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11647
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.