VacationSelector

Madrid or Miami?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Miami
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.

MadridMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
MadridMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance305 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 18 points.18
MadridMiami
Score8365
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2829
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 52 points.52
MadridMiami
Score7523
Museums within 10 km9728
Museums within 2 km of centre596
Share of museums within 2 km %6121
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 31 points.31
MadridMiami
Score8150
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6253
Nightclubs within 4 km34163
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 9 points.9
MadridMiami
Score6372
Protected land share 50 km %1916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km187 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 33 points.33
MadridMiami
Score7744
Tourist attractions within 2 km6114
Park area within 2 km187 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 33 points.33
MadridMiami
Score7542
Notable places within 2 km28845
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
MadridMiami
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 2 points.2
MadridMiami
Score7274
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 20 m
€861-905
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 7 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
12 h 30 m
€1,194-1343
MAD · 14 km
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
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

MeasureMadridMiami
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation663 m2 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridMiami
City population3,506,730442,241
People per km²5,8013,046
Museums within 10 km8817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre10639
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). 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.