VacationSelector

Rome or Valencia?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

RomeValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 34 points.34
RomeValencia
Score3367
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km312
Coast distance24 km3 km
Water distance24 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 18 points.18
RomeValencia
Score6078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2411,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1033
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 29 points.29
RomeValencia
Score8455
Museums within 10 km16159
Museums within 2 km of centre7926
Share of museums within 2 km %4944
Unesco sites within 50 km72
Nightlife. Rome leads by 4 points.4
RomeValencia
Score7470
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0221,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4563
Nightclubs within 4 km85108
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 17 points.17
RomeValencia
Score7053
Protected land share 50 km %1910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7864
Park area within 2 km172 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 44 points.44
RomeValencia
Score8642
Tourist attractions within 2 km12612
Park area within 2 km172 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 47 points.47
RomeValencia
Score9952
Notable places within 2 km1,12578
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 3 points.3
RomeValencia
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
RomeValencia
Score7184
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months38
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeValencia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 5 m
€94-137
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 10 m
no fares
CIA · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
8 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureRomeValencia
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation21 m15 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeValencia
City population2,748,109840,792
People per km²2,1356,242
Museums within 10 km17746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km72
Distinct cuisines in the centre6592
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.