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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
The towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light, Panama City
Panama CityThe towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Panama City by Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Nashville or Panama City?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Panama City for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Panama City’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, Panama City 44: Panama City leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Panama City 57: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Panama City 62: Panama City leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Panama City 62: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Panama City 74: Panama City leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Panama City 50: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Panama City 45: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Panama City 40: Panama City leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Panama City 52: Panama City leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Panama City 55: Panama City leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Panama City 34: Nashville leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Panama City 22: Panama City leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Panama City.

Your match

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

Nashville
46match

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

Panama City
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and 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.

Nashville in July

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

Panama City in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
161 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Panama City 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Panama City: 1991-2020 normals, Tocumen (20.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvillePanama City
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Balboa (PAB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911911
Elevation182 m20 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsTocumen International Airport (PTY)20 km from centre92 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvillePanama City
City population689,4471,540,000
People per km²5065,600
Museums within 10 km1210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.