VacationSelector

Sydney or Verona?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on value for money 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.

SydneyVerona
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
SydneyVerona
Score600
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km1602
Coast distance7 km104 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 35 points.35
SydneyVerona
Score7843
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,205477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3113
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 5 points.5
SydneyVerona
Score5156
Museums within 10 km4420
Museums within 2 km of centre2019
Share of museums within 2 km %4595
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 35 points.35
SydneyVerona
Score7540
Drinking venues within 4 km2,050416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6965
Nightclubs within 4 km1209
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 22 points.22
SydneyVerona
Score5836
Protected land share 50 km %109
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km115 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 5 points.5
SydneyVerona
Score6469
Tourist attractions within 2 km3762
Park area within 2 km115 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
SydneyVerona
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12382
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Verona leads by 18 points.18
SydneyVerona
Score5068
Price level global90.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 16 points.16
SydneyVerona
Score8165
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 mm38 mm to 85 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Verona
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Verona
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
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 106 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€172-262
1 stop
VRN · 10 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
9 h 55 m
€539-575
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€102-144
1 stop
VRN · 10 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

MeasureSydneyVerona
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 m59 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyVerona
City population5,450,496255,588
People per km²4491,285
Museums within 10 km3818
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre7935
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.