VacationSelector

Miami or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

MiamiThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 40 points.40
MiamiThessaloniki
Score9555
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km204
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 15 points.15
MiamiThessaloniki
Score6550
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2915
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 26 points.26
MiamiThessaloniki
Score2349
Museums within 10 km2834
Museums within 2 km of centre622
Share of museums within 2 km %2165
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.17
MiamiThessaloniki
Score5067
Drinking venues within 4 km5381,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5357
Nightclubs within 4 km6361
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 7 points.7
MiamiThessaloniki
Score7265
Protected land share 50 km %1625
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4883
Park area within 2 km50 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 3 points.3
MiamiThessaloniki
Score4441
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km50 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 14 points.14
MiamiThessaloniki
Score4256
Notable places within 2 km4598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
MiamiThessaloniki
Score4374
Price level global10055.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 2 points.2
MiamiThessaloniki
Score7472
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€129-217
SKG · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€138-200
1 stop
SKG · 14 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMiamiThessaloniki
Official languageGreek
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
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiThessaloniki
City population442,241309,617
People per km²3,04616,042
Museums within 10 km1731
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3945
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.