VacationSelector

Milan 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

Milan
63
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MilanRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 100 points.100
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km461
Coast distance120 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 16 points.16
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,991804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2016
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 5 points.5
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score7469
Museums within 10 km87110
Museums within 2 km of centre5551
Share of museums within 2 km %6346
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Milan leads by 18 points.18
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score7557
Drinking venues within 4 km2,215818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4362
Nightclubs within 4 km7050
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 3 points.3
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score6562
Protected land share 50 km %3021
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1117
Land share of disc %10057
Park area within 2 km102 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 18 points.18
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score7759
Tourist attractions within 2 km7630
Park area within 2 km102 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 18 points.18
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score7456
Notable places within 2 km26698
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 13 points.13
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score6881
Price level global64.946.1
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 21 points.21
MilanRio de Janeiro
Score6485
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2
Rio de Janeiro
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 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 fromMilanRio de Janeiro
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 km
1 h 5 m
€113-134
GIG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 40 km
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureMilanRio de Janeiro
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation138 m31 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanRio de Janeiro
City population1,354,1966,211,223
People per km²7,4534,930
Museums within 10 km8770
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre7927
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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.