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Philadelphia or Tampa?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

PhiladelphiaTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance13 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score7754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 33 points.33
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score6027
Museums within 10 km8913
Museums within 2 km of centre4810
Share of museums within 2 km %5477
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 20 points.20
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score5939
Drinking venues within 4 km930324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6270
Nightclubs within 4 km4126
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 19 points.19
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score4930
Protected land share 50 km %146
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8972
Park area within 2 km75 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score5330
Tourist attractions within 2 km163
Park area within 2 km75 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 33 points.33
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score5421
Notable places within 2 km8813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Philadelphia and Tampa are level on 43.
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 15 points.15
PhiladelphiaTampa
Score6075
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaTampa
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
RaleighRDU
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
San JuanSJU, SIG
3 h 40 m
€120-131
PHL · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
15 h 20 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaTampa
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m30 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaTampa
City population1,603,797384,959
People per km²4,339848
Museums within 10 km546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7547
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). 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. 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.

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.