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The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Madrid or Nashville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Madrid for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’s own page.

Choose Nashville for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Madrid 5, Nashville 14: Nashville leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Madrid 80, Nashville 62: Madrid leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Madrid 86, Nashville 50: Madrid leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Madrid 85, Nashville 70: Madrid leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Madrid 60, Nashville 46: Madrid leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Madrid 89, Nashville 52: Madrid leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Madrid 68, Nashville 55: Madrid leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Madrid 84, Nashville 30: Madrid leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Madrid 75, Nashville 42: Madrid leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Madrid 50, Nashville 30: Madrid leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Madrid 77, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Madrid 36, Nashville 20: Madrid leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Madrid and Nashville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMadridNashville
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation663 m182 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridNashville
City population3,506,730689,447
People per km²5,801506
Museums within 10 km8812
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.