VacationSelector

London or Valencia?

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, level with your weighting

London
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

LondonValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
LondonValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km4712
Coast distance43 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. London leads by 10 points.10
LondonValencia
Score8878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4033
Museums & heritage. London leads by 17 points.17
LondonValencia
Score7255
Museums within 10 km14859
Museums within 2 km of centre4926
Share of museums within 2 km %3344
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. London leads by 25 points.25
LondonValencia
Score9570
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3271,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4663
Nightclubs within 4 km312108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
LondonValencia
Score4053
Protected land share 50 km %1610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9764
Park area within 2 km84 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 33 points.33
LondonValencia
Score7542
Tourist attractions within 2 km8512
Park area within 2 km84 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 37 points.37
LondonValencia
Score8952
Notable places within 2 km64978
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
LondonValencia
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 21 points.21
LondonValencia
Score6384
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months18
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonValencia
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
€79-116
LGW · 40 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 15 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
50 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
1 h 15 m
€46-48
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLondonValencia
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m15 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonValencia
City population8,799,728840,792
People per km²5,5986,242
Museums within 10 km21546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre11692
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.