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St. Petersburg, Florida
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’s own page.

Choose York for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. St. Petersburg, Florida 85, York 14: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. St. Petersburg, Florida 52, York 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. St. Petersburg, Florida 52, York 70: York leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. St. Petersburg, Florida 44, York 36: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. St. Petersburg, Florida 58, York 62: York leads by 4 points.
Day trips. St. Petersburg, Florida 55, York 80: York leads by 25 points.
Good for families. St. Petersburg, Florida 70, York 60: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Getting around. St. Petersburg, Florida 33, York 72: York leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. St. Petersburg, Florida 38, York 46: York leads by 8 points.
Affordability. St. Petersburg, Florida 35, York 38: York leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. St. Petersburg, Florida 42, York 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. St. Petersburg, Florida 40, York 34: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: St. Petersburg, Florida and York.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °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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St. Petersburg, FloridaYork

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. St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSt. Petersburg, FloridaYork
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
Elevation134 m25 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSt. Petersburg, FloridaYork
City population258,308208,400
People per km²725766
Museums within 10 km1324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.