VacationSelector

London or Venice?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LondonVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
LondonVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km4720
Coast distance43 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. London leads by 43 points.43
LondonVenice
Score8845
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4010
Museums & heritage. London and Venice are level on 72.
LondonVenice
Score7272
Museums within 10 km14857
Museums within 2 km of centre4945
Share of museums within 2 km %3379
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. London leads by 60 points.60
LondonVenice
Score9535
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4689
Nightclubs within 4 km3123
Nature & day trips. London leads by 23 points.23
LondonVenice
Score4017
Protected land share 50 km %164
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9770
Park area within 2 km84 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 18 points.18
LondonVenice
Score7557
Tourist attractions within 2 km8572
Park area within 2 km84 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. London leads by 6 points.6
LondonVenice
Score8983
Notable places within 2 km649464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
LondonVenice
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 3 points.3
LondonVenice
Score6366
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months12
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
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
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
NaplesNAP
2 h 30 m
€170-347
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
1 h 20 m
€81
VCE · 7 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
2 h 40 m
€107-148
1 stop
TSF · 26 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
TSF · 26 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureLondonVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonVenice
City population8,799,728250,369
People per km²5,598602
Museums within 10 km21552
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre11646
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.