VacationSelector

Madrid or Tampa?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

MadridTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
MadridTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance305 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 29 points.29
MadridTampa
Score8354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2831
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 48 points.48
MadridTampa
Score7527
Museums within 10 km9713
Museums within 2 km of centre5910
Share of museums within 2 km %6177
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 42 points.42
MadridTampa
Score8139
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6270
Nightclubs within 4 km34126
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 33 points.33
MadridTampa
Score6330
Protected land share 50 km %196
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km187 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 47 points.47
MadridTampa
Score7730
Tourist attractions within 2 km613
Park area within 2 km187 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 54 points.54
MadridTampa
Score7521
Notable places within 2 km28813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
MadridTampa
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 3 points.3
MadridTampa
Score7275
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months71
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 5 m
€963-1395
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureMadridTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridTampa
City population3,506,730384,959
People per km²5,801848
Museums within 10 km886
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre10647
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.