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Paris or Valencia?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
64
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.

ParisValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
ParisValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km212
Coast distance149 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 12 points.12
ParisValencia
Score9078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3333
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 21 points.21
ParisValencia
Score7655
Museums within 10 km18559
Museums within 2 km of centre6526
Share of museums within 2 km %3544
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Paris leads by 18 points.18
ParisValencia
Score8870
Drinking venues within 4 km3,7961,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4563
Nightclubs within 4 km201108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 5 points.5
ParisValencia
Score4853
Protected land share 50 km %2810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km82 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 33 points.33
ParisValencia
Score7542
Tourist attractions within 2 km8912
Park area within 2 km82 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 42 points.42
ParisValencia
Score9452
Notable places within 2 km86578
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
ParisValencia
Score6271
Price level global73.760.8
Daily budget€160€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 18 points.18
ParisValencia
Score6684
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months18
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€56-140
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€444-536
CDG · 22 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
€130-199
ORY · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 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

MeasureParisValencia
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation27 m15 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisValencia
City population2,103,778840,792
People per km²19,9606,242
Museums within 10 km25146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre16992
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.