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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Manchester or Venice?

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 Manchester for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Venice for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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. Manchester 9, Venice 56: Venice leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, Venice 60: Venice leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, Venice 94: Venice leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, Venice 27: Manchester leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, Venice 45: Manchester leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Manchester 77, Venice 86: Venice leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Manchester 58, Venice 45: Manchester leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Manchester and Venice are level on 68.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, Venice 57: Manchester leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Manchester 42, Venice 20: Manchester leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, Venice 62: Manchester leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, Venice 40: Venice leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and Venice.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Manchester
54match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Venice
55match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManchesterVenice
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation38 m2 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterVenice
City population547,627250,369
People per km²4,737602
Museums within 10 km2852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.