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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Nashville or New York?

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 Nashville for

  • prices

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

Choose New York for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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. Nashville 14, New York 50: New York leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, New York 92: New York leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, New York 89: New York leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, New York 97: New York leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, New York 55: New York leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, New York 68: New York leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, New York 70: New York leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, New York 82: New York leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, New York 97: New York leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, New York 12: Nashville leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, New York 99: New York leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, New York 42: New York leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and New York.

Your match

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

Nashville
46match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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NashvilleNew York

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleNew York
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation182 m25 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleNew York
City population689,4478,804,190
People per km²5067,256
Museums within 10 km12157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 months

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.