VacationSelector

Milan or York?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MilanYork
Beaches & swimming. Milan and York are level on 0.
MilanYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km42
Coast distance120 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Milan leads by 16 points.16
MilanYork
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,991361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2031
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 28 points.28
MilanYork
Score7446
Museums within 10 km8718
Museums within 2 km of centre5516
Share of museums within 2 km %6389
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Milan leads by 32 points.32
MilanYork
Score7543
Drinking venues within 4 km2,215450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4378
Nightclubs within 4 km7014
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 32 points.32
MilanYork
Score6533
Protected land share 50 km %3017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1116
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km102 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 34 points.34
MilanYork
Score7743
Tourist attractions within 2 km7613
Park area within 2 km102 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 35 points.35
MilanYork
Score7439
Notable places within 2 km26637
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 14 points.14
MilanYork
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 8 points.8
MilanYork
Score6456
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMilanYork
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 40 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 55 m
€36-88
MXP · 40 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 10 m
€54-129
BGY · 46 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
3 h 30 m
no fares
BGY · 46 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureMilanYork
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation138 m25 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanYork
City population1,354,196208,400
People per km²7,453766
Museums within 10 km8724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre7954

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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. 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.