VacationSelector

New York or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

New YorkTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 11 points.11
New YorkTampa
Score6475
Swim season months38
Beaches 10 km1710
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 41 points.41
New YorkTampa
Score9554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3831
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 33 points.33
New YorkTampa
Score6027
Museums within 10 km11913
Museums within 2 km of centre3110
Share of museums within 2 km %2677
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 50 points.50
New YorkTampa
Score8939
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4870
Nightclubs within 4 km19226
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 9 points.9
New YorkTampa
Score3930
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6972
Park area within 2 km134 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 42 points.42
New YorkTampa
Score7230
Tourist attractions within 2 km373
Park area within 2 km134 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km75
Sights concentration. New York leads by 53 points.53
New YorkTampa
Score7421
Notable places within 2 km26813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. New York and Tampa are level on 43.
New YorkTampa
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 17 points.17
New YorkTampa
Score5875
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkTampa
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
RaleighRDU
1 h 30 m
€201-279
1 stop
LGA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 0 m
€193-222
JFK · 21 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureNew YorkTampa
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation25 m30 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkTampa
City population8,804,190384,959
People per km²7,256848
Museums within 10 km1576
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre13247
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months8 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.