VacationSelector

Malaga or New York?

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

Your match

Malaga
59
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MalagaNew York
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 2 points.2
MalagaNew York
Score6664
Swim season months33
Beaches 10 km2117
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 26 points.26
MalagaNew York
Score6995
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0026,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3438
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 7 points.7
MalagaNew York
Score5360
Museums within 10 km40119
Museums within 2 km of centre3531
Share of museums within 2 km %8826
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 35 points.35
MalagaNew York
Score5489
Drinking venues within 4 km7154,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4862,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6848
Nightclubs within 4 km45192
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 4 points.4
MalagaNew York
Score4339
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6369
Park area within 2 km85 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 19 points.19
MalagaNew York
Score5372
Tourist attractions within 2 km3337
Park area within 2 km85 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. New York leads by 37 points.37
MalagaNew York
Score3774
Notable places within 2 km33268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
MalagaNew York
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 24 points.24
MalagaNew York
Score8258
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm74 mm to 112 mm
Dry months50
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 9 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€229-272
LGA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 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

MeasureMalagaNew York
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
Elevation18 m25 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaNew York
City population599,0638,804,190
People per km²1,5177,256
Museums within 10 km32157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre65132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months3 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.