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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Nashville or Petra?

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
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Petra for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Nashville leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Petra 22: Nashville leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Petra 85: Petra leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Petra 5: Nashville leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Petra 78: Petra leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Petra 30: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Petra 25: Nashville leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Petra 25: Nashville leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Petra 18: Nashville leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Petra 45: Petra leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Petra 10: Nashville leads by 72 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Petra 28: Petra leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Petra.

Your match

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

Nashville
Best match
46match

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

Petra
31match

Wins on culture and sights 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 recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvillePetra
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911911
Elevation182 m850 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureNashvillePetra
City population689,447-
People per km²506-
Museums within 10 km122
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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. 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.