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The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Puerto Iguazu or Venice?

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 Puerto Iguazu for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • families

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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. Puerto Iguazu 5, Venice 56: Venice leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Iguazu 28, Venice 60: Venice leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Iguazu 9, Venice 94: Venice leads by 85 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Iguazu 14, Venice 27: Venice leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Iguazu 95, Venice 45: Puerto Iguazu leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Puerto Iguazu 33, Venice 86: Venice leads by 53 points.
Good for families. Puerto Iguazu 55, Venice 45: Puerto Iguazu leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Puerto Iguazu 54, Venice 68: Venice leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Iguazu 17, Venice 57: Venice leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Puerto Iguazu 48, Venice 20: Puerto Iguazu leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Iguazu 7, Venice 62: Venice leads by 55 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Iguazu 34, Venice 40: Venice leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Iguazu and Venice.

Your match

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

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto IguazuVenice
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation162 m2 m
Main airportCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto IguazuVenice
City population54,903250,369
People per km²-602
Museums within 10 km052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.