VacationSelector

Munich or Tampa?

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

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
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.

MunichTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
MunichTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance579 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 19 points.19
MunichTampa
Score7354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 34 points.34
MunichTampa
Score6127
Museums within 10 km7413
Museums within 2 km of centre4810
Share of museums within 2 km %6577
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Munich leads by 28 points.28
MunichTampa
Score6739
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5770
Nightclubs within 4 km10326
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 18 points.18
MunichTampa
Score4830
Protected land share 50 km %176
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km199 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 49 points.49
MunichTampa
Score7930
Tourist attractions within 2 km803
Park area within 2 km199 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 47 points.47
MunichTampa
Score6821
Notable places within 2 km19613
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 17 points.17
MunichTampa
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 19 points.19
MunichTampa
Score5675
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 mm36 mm to 228 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureMunichTampa
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation519 m30 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichTampa
City population1,510,378384,959
People per km²4,861848
Museums within 10 km746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8947
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. 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.