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The cathedral from Piazza del Duomo, Milan
MilanThe cathedral from Piazza del Duomo
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Milan by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Milan or Victoria Falls?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Milan for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Milan’s own page.

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Milan 20, Victoria Falls 7: Milan leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Milan 78, Victoria Falls 24: Milan leads by 54 points.
Culture & sights. Milan 78, Victoria Falls 12: Milan leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Milan 66, Victoria Falls 8: Milan leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Milan 65, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Milan 91, Victoria Falls 22: Milan leads by 69 points.
Good for families. Milan 55, Victoria Falls 38: Milan leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Milan 79, Victoria Falls 45: Milan leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Milan 92, Victoria Falls 18: Milan leads by 74 points.
Affordability. Milan 33, Victoria Falls 32: Milan leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Milan 82, Victoria Falls 10: Milan leads by 72 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Milan 42, Victoria Falls 34: Milan leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Milan and Victoria Falls.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Milan
Best match
65match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Milan in July

30 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MilanVictoria Falls

Where the figures come from

Milan has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Milan's sunshine is measured 41 km from the centre, at Novara / Cameri.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Milano / Linate (8 km from centre). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMilanVictoria Falls
Official languageItalianEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation138 m961 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanVictoria Falls
City population1,354,19633,060
People per km²7,453-
Museums within 10 km882
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.