VacationSelector

Nice or Tampa?

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

Your match

Nice
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

NiceTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
NiceTampa
Score7375
Swim season months48
Beaches 10 km7010
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 15 points.15
NiceTampa
Score6954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,231359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2831
Museums & heritage. Nice leads by 19 points.19
NiceTampa
Score4627
Museums within 10 km2713
Museums within 2 km of centre1410
Share of museums within 2 km %5277
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Nice leads by 5 points.5
NiceTampa
Score4439
Drinking venues within 4 km428324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9170
Nightclubs within 4 km2626
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 27 points.27
NiceTampa
Score5730
Protected land share 50 km %246
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %6272
Park area within 2 km56 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Nice and Tampa are level on 30.
NiceTampa
Score3030
Tourist attractions within 2 km43
Park area within 2 km56 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 26 points.26
NiceTampa
Score4721
Notable places within 2 km6013
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 19 points.19
NiceTampa
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 1 points.1
NiceTampa
Score7475
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months31
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceTampa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 25 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€193-242
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureNiceTampa
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m30 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceTampa
City population357,737384,959
People per km²4,975848
Museums within 10 km166
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6547
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.