VacationSelector

Miami or Vancouver?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Miami
56
match

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

Vancouver
57
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.

MiamiVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 35 points.35
MiamiVancouver
Score9560
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km20109
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
MiamiVancouver
Score6574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8981,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
MiamiVancouver
Score2334
Museums within 10 km2827
Museums within 2 km of centre615
Share of museums within 2 km %2156
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 7 points.7
MiamiVancouver
Score5057
Drinking venues within 4 km538848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5371
Nightclubs within 4 km6344
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 5 points.5
MiamiVancouver
Score7277
Protected land share 50 km %1619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4860
Park area within 2 km50 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 9 points.9
MiamiVancouver
Score4453
Tourist attractions within 2 km1415
Park area within 2 km50 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 6 points.6
MiamiVancouver
Score4248
Notable places within 2 km4563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
MiamiVancouver
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 21 points.21
MiamiVancouver
Score7453
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMiamiVancouver
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 7 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 30 m
€103-188
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
€344-394
MIA · 7 km
55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureMiamiVancouver
Official languageFrench, 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
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiVancouver
City population442,241662,248
People per km²3,0465,759
Museums within 10 km1726
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3985
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. 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.