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Milan or Thessaloniki?

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

Your match

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
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.

MilanThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
MilanThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance120 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 20 points.20
MilanThessaloniki
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,991640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2015
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 25 points.25
MilanThessaloniki
Score7449
Museums within 10 km8734
Museums within 2 km of centre5522
Share of museums within 2 km %6365
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Milan leads by 8 points.8
MilanThessaloniki
Score7567
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2151,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4357
Nightclubs within 4 km7061
Nature & day trips. Milan and Thessaloniki are level on 65.
MilanThessaloniki
Score6565
Protected land share 50 km %3025
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km102 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 36 points.36
MilanThessaloniki
Score7741
Tourist attractions within 2 km7616
Park area within 2 km102 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 18 points.18
MilanThessaloniki
Score7456
Notable places within 2 km26698
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
MilanThessaloniki
Score6874
Price level global64.955.8
Daily budget€155€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.8
MilanThessaloniki
Score6472
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Milan
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2
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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMilanThessaloniki
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 40 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 5 m
€96
MXP · 40 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 50 m
€119-204
MXP · 40 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
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 2026-08 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

MeasureMilanThessaloniki
Official languageItalianGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation138 m6 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanThessaloniki
City population1,354,196309,617
People per km²7,45316,042
Museums within 10 km8731
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre7945
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.