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Ca' d'Zan, the Ringling mansion on Sarasota Bay, Sarasota
SarasotaCa' d'Zan, the Ringling mansion on Sarasota Bay
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Sarasota by Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Sarasota or Tel Aviv?

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 Sarasota for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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. Sarasota and Tel Aviv are level on 86.
Food & drink. Sarasota 44, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Sarasota 45, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Sarasota 28, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sarasota 55, Tel Aviv 52: Sarasota leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Sarasota 50, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Sarasota and Tel Aviv are level on 68.
Getting around. Sarasota 28, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Sarasota 40, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Sarasota 30, Tel Aviv 14: Sarasota leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sarasota 58, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sarasota 45, Tel Aviv 35: Sarasota leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sarasota and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Sarasota
48match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Sarasota in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
195 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sarasota 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.

Sarasota's sunshine is measured 70 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarasota: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sarasota / Ballentine Manor (6.7 km from centre). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSarasotaTel Aviv
Official language-Hebrew
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 100, fire 102
Elevation7 m5 m
Main airportSarasota Bradenton International Airport (SRQ)7 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSarasotaTel Aviv
City population54,842467,875
People per km²8408,998
Museums within 10 km398
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months7 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.