VacationSelector

Philadelphia or York?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on 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.

PhiladelphiaYork
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and York are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance13 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
PhiladelphiaYork
Score7754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 14 points.14
PhiladelphiaYork
Score6046
Museums within 10 km8918
Museums within 2 km of centre4816
Share of museums within 2 km %5489
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 16 points.16
PhiladelphiaYork
Score5943
Drinking venues within 4 km930450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6278
Nightclubs within 4 km4114
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 16 points.16
PhiladelphiaYork
Score4933
Protected land share 50 km %1417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %8995
Park area within 2 km75 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaYork
Score5343
Tourist attractions within 2 km1613
Park area within 2 km75 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
PhiladelphiaYork
Score5439
Notable places within 2 km8837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. York leads by 11 points.11
PhiladelphiaYork
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 4 points.4
PhiladelphiaYork
Score6056
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MalagaAGP
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BridgetownBGI
4 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DublinDUB
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PalmaPMI
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DohaDOH
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
7 h 0 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 2026-09 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaYork
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation12 m25 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaYork
City population1,603,797208,400
People per km²4,339766
Museums within 10 km5424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7554

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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. 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.