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White sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach, Pensacola
PensacolaWhite sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach
A madrasa and its minarets on the Registan, Samarkand
SamarkandA madrasa and its minarets on the Registan

Photos: Pensacola by Jason Meredith, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Samarkand by Yaşar Başkurt, Pexels License.

Pensacola or Samarkand?

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 Pensacola for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Samarkand for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Samarkand’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. Pensacola 84, Samarkand 4: Pensacola leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Pensacola 45, Samarkand 54: Samarkand leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Pensacola 45, Samarkand 84: Samarkand leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Pensacola 42, Samarkand 14: Pensacola leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pensacola 62, Samarkand 40: Pensacola leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Pensacola 45, Samarkand 72: Samarkand leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Pensacola 62, Samarkand 30: Pensacola leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Pensacola 18, Samarkand 58: Samarkand leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Pensacola 28, Samarkand 42: Samarkand leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Pensacola 44, Samarkand 80: Samarkand leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pensacola 36, Samarkand 24: Pensacola leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Pensacola 30, Samarkand 32: Samarkand leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pensacola and Samarkand.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Pensacola
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Samarkand
45match

Wins on getting around 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.

Pensacola in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Samarkand in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PensacolaSamarkand

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Pensacola: 1991-2020 normals, Pensacola / Pleasant Grove (12.3 km from centre). Samarkand: 1991-2020 normals, Samarkand (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePensacolaSamarkand
Official language-Uzbek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+5
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m702 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)6 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsSamarkand International Airport (SKD)5 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePensacolaSamarkand
City population54,312546,303
People per km²5155,058
Museums within 10 km511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months-

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.