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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Nashville or Quito?

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
  • families

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

Choose Quito for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Quito’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, Quito 5: Nashville leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Quito 54: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Quito 77: Quito leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Quito 40: Nashville leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Quito 86: Quito leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Quito 55: Quito leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Quito 32: Nashville leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Quito 45: Quito leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Quito 40: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Quito 78: Quito leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Quito 38: Nashville leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Quito 44: Quito leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Quito.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Quito
Best match
50match

Wins on prices 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

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleQuito
Official language-Spanish, Shuar, Northern Quichua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911911
Elevation182 m2,850 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleQuito
City population689,4471,763,275
People per km²5064,735
Museums within 10 km1216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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. 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.