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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Erasmus Bridge and the skyline, Rotterdam
RotterdamErasmus Bridge and the skyline

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Rotterdam by Bas Geerlings, Pexels License.

Nashville or Rotterdam?

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 Rotterdam for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Rotterdam’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, Rotterdam 27: Rotterdam leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Rotterdam 52: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Rotterdam 58: Rotterdam leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Rotterdam 52: Nashville leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Rotterdam 44: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Rotterdam 85: Rotterdam leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Rotterdam 66: Rotterdam leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Rotterdam 78: Rotterdam leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Rotterdam 55: Rotterdam leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Rotterdam 38: Rotterdam leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Rotterdam 58: Nashville leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Rotterdam 42: Rotterdam leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Rotterdam.

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.

Rotterdam
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Rotterdam in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Rotterdam 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.

Rotterdam's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleRotterdam
Official language-Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation182 m10 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleRotterdam
City population689,447664,311
People per km²5062,080
Museums within 10 km1240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.