VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Tampa?

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

Your match

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

RotterdamTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 38 points.38
RotterdamTampa
Score3775
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km2210
Coast distance24 km1 km
Water distance24 km1 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 18 points.18
RotterdamTampa
Score7254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre862359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4631
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 33 points.33
RotterdamTampa
Score6027
Museums within 10 km4113
Museums within 2 km of centre2010
Share of museums within 2 km %4977
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 10 points.10
RotterdamTampa
Score4939
Drinking venues within 4 km542324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre378227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7070
Nightclubs within 4 km4026
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 12 points.12
RotterdamTampa
Score4230
Protected land share 50 km %106
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7972
Park area within 2 km61 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 32 points.32
RotterdamTampa
Score6230
Tourist attractions within 2 km273
Park area within 2 km61 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km85
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 30 points.30
RotterdamTampa
Score5121
Notable places within 2 km7413
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
RotterdamTampa
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 19 points.19
RotterdamTampa
Score5675
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm36 mm to 228 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
7 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureRotterdamTampa
Official languageDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation10 m30 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamTampa
City population664,311384,959
People per km²2,080848
Museums within 10 km406
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre7747
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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.