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A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Miami Beach or Thessaloniki?

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 Miami Beach for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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. Miami Beach 92, Thessaloniki 55: Miami Beach leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Miami Beach 62, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Miami Beach 52, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Miami Beach 80, Thessaloniki 76: Miami Beach leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Miami Beach 52, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Miami Beach 55, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Miami Beach 60, Thessaloniki 50: Miami Beach leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Miami Beach 58, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Miami Beach 55, Thessaloniki 50: Miami Beach leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Miami Beach 20, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Miami Beach 55, Thessaloniki 52: Miami Beach leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Miami Beach 48, Thessaloniki 33: Miami Beach leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Miami Beach and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Miami Beach
57match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on prices 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.

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Miami BeachThessaloniki

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMiami BeachThessaloniki
Official language-Greek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1 m6 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiami BeachThessaloniki
City population82,890309,617
People per km²2,10916,042
Museums within 10 km1432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.