VacationSelector

Paris or York?

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.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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.

ParisYork
Beaches & swimming. Paris and York are level on 0.
ParisYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km22
Coast distance149 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 36 points.36
ParisYork
Score9054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3331
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 30 points.30
ParisYork
Score7646
Museums within 10 km18518
Museums within 2 km of centre6516
Share of museums within 2 km %3589
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Paris leads by 45 points.45
ParisYork
Score8843
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4578
Nightclubs within 4 km20114
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 15 points.15
ParisYork
Score4833
Protected land share 50 km %2817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2616
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km82 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 32 points.32
ParisYork
Score7543
Tourist attractions within 2 km8913
Park area within 2 km82 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 55 points.55
ParisYork
Score9439
Notable places within 2 km86537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 8 points.8
ParisYork
Score6254
Price level global73.784.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 10 points.10
ParisYork
Score6656
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisYork
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€445-510
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureParisYork
Official languageFrenchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation27 m25 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisYork
City population2,103,778208,400
People per km²19,960766
Museums within 10 km25124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre16954

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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.