VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Venice?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

PhiladelphiaVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance13 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 32 points.32
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score7745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3510
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 12 points.12
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score6072
Museums within 10 km8957
Museums within 2 km of centre4845
Share of museums within 2 km %5479
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 24 points.24
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score5935
Drinking venues within 4 km930342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6289
Nightclubs within 4 km413
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 32 points.32
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score4917
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8970
Park area within 2 km75 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 4 points.4
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score5357
Tourist attractions within 2 km1672
Park area within 2 km75 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 29 points.29
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score5483
Notable places within 2 km88464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 25 points.25
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 6 points.6
PhiladelphiaVenice
Score6066
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
CataniaCTA
9 h 15 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
3 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaVenice
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m2 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaVenice
City population1,603,797250,369
People per km²4,339602
Museums within 10 km5452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7546
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.