VacationSelector

Lyon or Tampa?

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

Your match

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

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

Tampa
44
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.

LyonTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
LyonTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km2610
Coast distance253 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 25 points.25
LyonTampa
Score7954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,691359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4031
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 28 points.28
LyonTampa
Score5527
Museums within 10 km5313
Museums within 2 km of centre2510
Share of museums within 2 km %4777
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 19 points.19
LyonTampa
Score5839
Drinking venues within 4 km866324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7170
Nightclubs within 4 km4726
Nature & day trips. Lyon leads by 3 points.3
LyonTampa
Score3330
Protected land share 50 km %66
Landscape blanket share 50 km %60
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km120 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 29 points.29
LyonTampa
Score5930
Tourist attractions within 2 km253
Park area within 2 km120 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 33 points.33
LyonTampa
Score5421
Notable places within 2 km8613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 19 points.19
LyonTampa
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 11 points.11
LyonTampa
Score6475
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
3 h 10 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLyonTampa
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation160 m30 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonTampa
City population519,127384,959
People per km²10,838848
Museums within 10 km426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre14847
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.