VacationSelector

Miami or Paris?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

MiamiParis
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
MiamiParis
Score950
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km202
Coast distance1 km149 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 25 points.25
MiamiParis
Score6590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8984,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2933
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 53 points.53
MiamiParis
Score2376
Museums within 10 km28185
Museums within 2 km of centre665
Share of museums within 2 km %2135
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Paris leads by 38 points.38
MiamiParis
Score5088
Drinking venues within 4 km5383,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2871,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5345
Nightclubs within 4 km63201
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 24 points.24
MiamiParis
Score7248
Protected land share 50 km %1628
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %48100
Park area within 2 km50 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 31 points.31
MiamiParis
Score4475
Tourist attractions within 2 km1489
Park area within 2 km50 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 52 points.52
MiamiParis
Score4294
Notable places within 2 km45865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 19 points.19
MiamiParis
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 8 points.8
MiamiParis
Score7466
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 mm38 mm to 75 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiParis
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
7 h 45 m
€445-510
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
BogotaBOG
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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

MeasureMiamiParis
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m27 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiParis
City population442,2412,103,778
People per km²3,04619,960
Museums within 10 km17251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre39169
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.