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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Nashville or Valencia?

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

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Valencia 66: Nashville leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Valencia 60: Valencia leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Valencia 55: Nashville leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Valencia.

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.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and getting around 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleValencia
Official language-Spanish
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 m15 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleValencia
City population689,447840,792
People per km²5066,242
Museums within 10 km1245
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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. 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.