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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Nashville or Portofino?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Portofino for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’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, Portofino 60: Portofino leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Portofino 36: Nashville leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Portofino 22: Nashville leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Portofino 14: Nashville leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Portofino 77: Portofino leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Portofino 76: Portofino leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Portofino 33: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Portofino 50: Portofino leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Portofino 29: Nashville leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Portofino 9: Nashville leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Portofino 7: Nashville leads by 75 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Portofino 42: Portofino leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Portofino.

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.

Portofino
38match

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

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino 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). Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvillePortofino
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation182 m20 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvillePortofino
City population689,447355
People per km²506142
Museums within 10 km1214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.