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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Nashville or Samarkand?

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 Samarkand for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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, Samarkand 4: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Samarkand 54: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Samarkand 14: Nashville leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Samarkand 40: Nashville leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Samarkand 30: Nashville leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Samarkand 58: Samarkand leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville and Samarkand are level on 42.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Samarkand 24: Nashville leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Samarkand 32: Samarkand leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Samarkand.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Nashville
46match

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

Samarkand
45match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleSamarkand
Official language-Uzbek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+5
Emergency number911112
Elevation182 m702 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleSamarkand
City population689,447546,303
People per km²5065,058
Museums within 10 km1211
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.