VacationSelector

New York or Valencia?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

New York
66
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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 YorkValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
New YorkValencia
Score6467
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km1712
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 17 points.17
New YorkValencia
Score9578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3833
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 5 points.5
New YorkValencia
Score6055
Museums within 10 km11959
Museums within 2 km of centre3126
Share of museums within 2 km %2644
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 19 points.19
New YorkValencia
Score8970
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1591,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4863
Nightclubs within 4 km192108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 14 points.14
New YorkValencia
Score3953
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6964
Park area within 2 km134 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 30 points.30
New YorkValencia
Score7242
Tourist attractions within 2 km3712
Park area within 2 km134 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. New York leads by 22 points.22
New YorkValencia
Score7452
Notable places within 2 km26878
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
New YorkValencia
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 26 points.26
New YorkValencia
Score5884
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
1 h 15 m
€229-272
LGA · 13 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 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 YorkValencia
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m15 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkValencia
City population8,804,190840,792
People per km²7,2566,242
Museums within 10 km15746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre13292
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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. 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. 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.