VacationSelector

New York or Venice?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

New YorkVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 5 points.5
New YorkVenice
Score6469
Swim season months34
Beaches 10 km1720
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 50 points.50
New YorkVenice
Score9545
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3810
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 12 points.12
New YorkVenice
Score6072
Museums within 10 km11957
Museums within 2 km of centre3145
Share of museums within 2 km %2679
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. New York leads by 54 points.54
New YorkVenice
Score8935
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4889
Nightclubs within 4 km1923
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 22 points.22
New YorkVenice
Score3917
Protected land share 50 km %44
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6970
Park area within 2 km134 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkVenice
Score7257
Tourist attractions within 2 km3772
Park area within 2 km134 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 9 points.9
New YorkVenice
Score7483
Notable places within 2 km268464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 25 points.25
New YorkVenice
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 8 points.8
New YorkVenice
Score5866
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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 YorkVenice
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkVenice
City population8,804,190250,369
People per km²7,256602
Museums within 10 km15752
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre13246
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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.