VacationSelector

Miami or Rio de Janeiro?

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 places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

MiamiRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 5 points.5
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score95100
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km2061
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 11 points.11
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score6554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2916
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 46 points.46
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score2369
Museums within 10 km28110
Museums within 2 km of centre651
Share of museums within 2 km %2146
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro leads by 7 points.7
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score5057
Drinking venues within 4 km538818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5362
Nightclubs within 4 km6350
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 10 points.10
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score7262
Protected land share 50 km %1621
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %4857
Park area within 2 km50 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 15 points.15
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score4459
Tourist attractions within 2 km1430
Park area within 2 km50 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 14 points.14
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score4256
Notable places within 2 km4598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 38 points.38
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score4381
Price level global10046.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 11 points.11
MiamiRio de Janeiro
Score7485
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiRio de Janeiro
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
9 h 5 m
€511-537
MIA · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€212-267
GIG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€113-134
GIG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
BrasiliaBSB
7 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€190-412
SDU · 4 km
BogotaBOG
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 45 m
€144-205
MIA · 7 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 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

MeasureMiamiRio de Janeiro
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation2 m31 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiRio de Janeiro
City population442,2416,211,223
People per km²3,0464,930
Museums within 10 km1770
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3927
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.