VacationSelector

Paris or Philadelphia?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

ParisPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Paris and Philadelphia are level on 0.
ParisPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km21
Coast distance149 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 13 points.13
ParisPhiladelphia
Score9077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3335
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 16 points.16
ParisPhiladelphia
Score7660
Museums within 10 km18589
Museums within 2 km of centre6548
Share of museums within 2 km %3554
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Paris leads by 29 points.29
ParisPhiladelphia
Score8859
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4562
Nightclubs within 4 km20141
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
ParisPhiladelphia
Score4849
Protected land share 50 km %2814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km82 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 22 points.22
ParisPhiladelphia
Score7553
Tourist attractions within 2 km8916
Park area within 2 km82 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 40 points.40
ParisPhiladelphia
Score9454
Notable places within 2 km86588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 19 points.19
ParisPhiladelphia
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 6 points.6
ParisPhiladelphia
Score6660
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm69 mm to 112 mm
Dry months10
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
No sunshine record
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromParisPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€444-536
CDG · 22 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
10 h 10 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€445-510
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
NiceNCE
1 h 30 m
€86-132
ORY · 14 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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

MeasureParisPhiladelphia
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
Elevation27 m12 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisPhiladelphia
City population2,103,7781,603,797
People per km²19,9604,339
Museums within 10 km25154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre16975

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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. 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.