VacationSelector

Malaga or Venice?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Malaga
59
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

MalagaVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 3 points.3
MalagaVenice
Score6669
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km2120
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 24 points.24
MalagaVenice
Score6945
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,002750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3410
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 19 points.19
MalagaVenice
Score5372
Museums within 10 km4057
Museums within 2 km of centre3545
Share of museums within 2 km %8879
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 19 points.19
MalagaVenice
Score5435
Drinking venues within 4 km715342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6889
Nightclubs within 4 km453
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 26 points.26
MalagaVenice
Score4317
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6370
Park area within 2 km85 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 4 points.4
MalagaVenice
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km3372
Park area within 2 km85 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 46 points.46
MalagaVenice
Score3783
Notable places within 2 km33464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 3 points.3
MalagaVenice
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 16 points.16
MalagaVenice
Score8266
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months52
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€44-65
TSF · 26 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
TSF · 26 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

MeasureMalagaVenice
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation18 m2 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaVenice
City population599,063250,369
People per km²1,517602
Museums within 10 km3252
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre6546
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.