VacationSelector

Lucerne or Miami?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
✓ Best match
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.

LucerneMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
LucerneMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1620
Coast distance669 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 18 points.18
LucerneMiami
Score4765
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2529
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 17 points.17
LucerneMiami
Score4023
Museums within 10 km2328
Museums within 2 km of centre136
Share of museums within 2 km %5721
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Miami leads by 22 points.22
LucerneMiami
Score2850
Drinking venues within 4 km202538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7553
Nightclubs within 4 km1163
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 47 points.47
LucerneMiami
Score2572
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km29 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 6 points.6
LucerneMiami
Score3844
Tourist attractions within 2 km1514
Park area within 2 km29 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Miami leads by 7 points.7
LucerneMiami
Score3542
Notable places within 2 km2945
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Miami leads by 8 points.8
LucerneMiami
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 21 points.21
LucerneMiami
Score5374
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months00
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BogotaBOG
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
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

MeasureLucerneMiami
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation436 m2 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneMiami
City population86,234442,241
People per km²2,9633,046
Museums within 10 km1417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4639
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.