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A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Miami Beach or Vancouver?

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
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Miami Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Miami Beach 62, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Miami Beach 52, Vancouver 42: Miami Beach leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Miami Beach 80, Vancouver 42: Miami Beach leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Miami Beach 52, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Miami Beach 55, Vancouver 45: Miami Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Miami Beach 60, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Miami Beach 58, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Miami Beach and Vancouver are level on 55.
Affordability. Miami Beach 20, Vancouver 27: Vancouver leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Miami Beach 55, Vancouver 52: Miami Beach leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Miami Beach 48, Vancouver 50: Vancouver leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Miami Beach and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Miami Beach
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Vancouver
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Miami BeachVancouver

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMiami BeachVancouver
Official language-French, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1 m2 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiami BeachVancouver
City population82,890662,248
People per km²2,1095,759
Museums within 10 km1426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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. 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.