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The towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light, Panama City
Panama CityThe towers of Panama City reflected in the bay in golden light
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Panama City by Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Panama City or Venice?

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 Panama City for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Venice for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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. Panama City 44, Venice 56: Venice leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Panama City 57, Venice 60: Venice leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Panama City 62, Venice 94: Venice leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Panama City 62, Venice 27: Panama City leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Panama City 74, Venice 45: Panama City leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Panama City 50, Venice 86: Venice leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Panama City and Venice are level on 45.
Getting around. Panama City 40, Venice 68: Venice leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Panama City 52, Venice 57: Venice leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Panama City 55, Venice 20: Panama City leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Panama City 34, Venice 62: Venice leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Panama City 22, Venice 40: Venice leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Panama City and Venice.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Panama City
50match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Panama City in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
161 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 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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Where the figures come from

Panama City has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Panama City: 1991-2020 normals, Tocumen (20.4 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePanama CityVenice
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyBalboa (PAB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation20 m2 m
Main airportTocumen International Airport (PTY)20 km from centre92 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePanama CityVenice
City population1,540,000250,369
People per km²5,600602
Museums within 10 km1052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.