VacationSelector

Rome or York?

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.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

RomeYork
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
RomeYork
Score330
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km32
Coast distance24 km50 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 6 points.6
RomeYork
Score6054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,241361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1031
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 38 points.38
RomeYork
Score8446
Museums within 10 km16118
Museums within 2 km of centre7916
Share of museums within 2 km %4989
Unesco sites within 50 km72
Nightlife. Rome leads by 31 points.31
RomeYork
Score7443
Drinking venues within 4 km2,022450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4578
Nightclubs within 4 km8514
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 37 points.37
RomeYork
Score7033
Protected land share 50 km %1917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %7895
Park area within 2 km172 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 43 points.43
RomeYork
Score8643
Tourist attractions within 2 km12613
Park area within 2 km172 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 60 points.60
RomeYork
Score9939
Notable places within 2 km1,12537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 14 points.14
RomeYork
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 15 points.15
RomeYork
Score7156
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months31
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 20 m
€60-112
FCO · 23 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 30 m
€58-92
FCO · 23 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 10 m
€38-50
FCO · 23 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
€487-550
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Addis AbabaADD
5 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
10 h 10 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 2026-08 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

MeasureRomeYork
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation21 m25 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeYork
City population2,748,109208,400
People per km²2,135766
Museums within 10 km17724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km72
Distinct cuisines in the centre6554
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.