VacationSelector

Sydney or Venice?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

SydneyVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 9 points.9
SydneyVenice
Score6069
Swim season months64
Beaches 10 km16020
Coast distance7 km4 km
Water distance7 km4 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 33 points.33
SydneyVenice
Score7845
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,205750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3110
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 21 points.21
SydneyVenice
Score5172
Museums within 10 km4457
Museums within 2 km of centre2045
Share of museums within 2 km %4579
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 40 points.40
SydneyVenice
Score7535
Drinking venues within 4 km2,050342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6989
Nightclubs within 4 km1203
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 41 points.41
SydneyVenice
Score5817
Protected land share 50 km %104
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5270
Park area within 2 km115 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
SydneyVenice
Score6457
Tourist attractions within 2 km3772
Park area within 2 km115 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 23 points.23
SydneyVenice
Score6083
Notable places within 2 km123464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 18 points.18
SydneyVenice
Score5068
Price level global90.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 15 points.15
SydneyVenice
Score8166
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
9 h 55 m
€539-575
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 15 m
€518-556
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureSydneyVenice
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation6 m2 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyVenice
City population5,450,496250,369
People per km²449602
Museums within 10 km3852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre7946
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 months4 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.