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Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Savannah or York?

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 Savannah for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose York for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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. Savannah 55, York 14: Savannah leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Savannah 58, York 42: Savannah leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Savannah 68, York 70: York leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Savannah 52, York 36: Savannah leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Savannah 48, York 62: York leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Savannah 60, York 80: York leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Savannah 50, York 60: York leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Savannah 58, York 72: York leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Savannah 42, York 46: York leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Savannah 35, York 38: York leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Savannah 40, York 38: Savannah leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Savannah 40, York 34: Savannah leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Savannah and York.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Savannah
51match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSavannahYork
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation15 m25 m
Main airportSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSavannahYork
City population147,780208,400
People per km²524766
Museums within 10 km1924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.