VacationSelector

Paris or Tampa?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

ParisTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
ParisTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km210
Coast distance149 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 36 points.36
ParisTampa
Score9054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3331
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 49 points.49
ParisTampa
Score7627
Museums within 10 km18513
Museums within 2 km of centre6510
Share of museums within 2 km %3577
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 49 points.49
ParisTampa
Score8839
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4570
Nightclubs within 4 km20126
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 18 points.18
ParisTampa
Score4830
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km82 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 45 points.45
ParisTampa
Score7530
Tourist attractions within 2 km893
Park area within 2 km82 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 73 points.73
ParisTampa
Score9421
Notable places within 2 km86513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 19 points.19
ParisTampa
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 9 points.9
ParisTampa
Score6675
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months11
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
No sunshine record
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€445-510
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 25 m
€687-789
CDG · 22 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 40 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureParisTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisTampa
City population2,103,778384,959
People per km²19,960848
Museums within 10 km2516
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16947
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.