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Philadelphia or Thessaloniki?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance13 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 27 points.27
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score7750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 11 points.11
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score6049
Museums within 10 km8934
Museums within 2 km of centre4822
Share of museums within 2 km %5465
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.8
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score5967
Drinking venues within 4 km9301,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6257
Nightclubs within 4 km4161
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.16
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score4965
Protected land share 50 km %1425
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8983
Park area within 2 km75 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score5341
Tourist attractions within 2 km1616
Park area within 2 km75 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score5456
Notable places within 2 km8898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score4374
Price level global10055.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
PhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Score6072
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaThessaloniki
AthensATH
10 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BerlinBER
8 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
1 h 15 m
€86-115
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 140 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaThessaloniki
Official languageGreek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m6 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaThessaloniki
City population1,603,797309,617
People per km²4,33916,042
Museums within 10 km5431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7545
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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.