VacationSelector

Manchester or Tampa?

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

Your match

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

ManchesterTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 47 points.47
ManchesterTampa
Score2875
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km1010
Coast distance27 km1 km
Water distance27 km1 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 14 points.14
ManchesterTampa
Score6854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 15 points.15
ManchesterTampa
Score4227
Museums within 10 km2313
Museums within 2 km of centre1110
Share of museums within 2 km %4877
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 23 points.23
ManchesterTampa
Score6239
Drinking venues within 4 km1,029324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre792227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7770
Nightclubs within 4 km8226
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 6 points.6
ManchesterTampa
Score3630
Protected land share 50 km %176
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %9972
Park area within 2 km63 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 2 points.2
ManchesterTampa
Score3230
Tourist attractions within 2 km53
Park area within 2 km63 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 27 points.27
ManchesterTampa
Score4821
Notable places within 2 km6113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manchester leads by 11 points.11
ManchesterTampa
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 21 points.21
ManchesterTampa
Score5475
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterTampa
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
2 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
CancunCUN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
15 h 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureManchesterTampa
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation38 m30 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterTampa
City population547,627384,959
People per km²4,737848
Museums within 10 km286
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6347
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.