VacationSelector

Miami or Milan?

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

Your match

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

MiamiMilan
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
MiamiMilan
Score950
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km204
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 5 points.5
MiamiMilan
Score6570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8981,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2920
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 51 points.51
MiamiMilan
Score2374
Museums within 10 km2887
Museums within 2 km of centre655
Share of museums within 2 km %2163
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Milan leads by 25 points.25
MiamiMilan
Score5075
Drinking venues within 4 km5382,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5343
Nightclubs within 4 km6370
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 7 points.7
MiamiMilan
Score7265
Protected land share 50 km %1630
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %48100
Park area within 2 km50 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 33 points.33
MiamiMilan
Score4477
Tourist attractions within 2 km1476
Park area within 2 km50 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 32 points.32
MiamiMilan
Score4274
Notable places within 2 km45266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 25 points.25
MiamiMilan
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 10 points.10
MiamiMilan
Score7464
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 mm44 mm to 127 mm
Dry months00
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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiMilan
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 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

MeasureMiamiMilan
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m138 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiMilan
City population442,2411,354,196
People per km²3,0467,453
Museums within 10 km1787
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3979
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. 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.