VacationSelector

Tampa or Thessaloniki?

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

Your match

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

TampaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 20 points.20
TampaThessaloniki
Score7555
Swim season months85
Beaches 10 km104
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 4 points.4
TampaThessaloniki
Score5450
Restaurants within 2 km of centre359640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3115
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 22 points.22
TampaThessaloniki
Score2749
Museums within 10 km1334
Museums within 2 km of centre1022
Share of museums within 2 km %7765
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 28 points.28
TampaThessaloniki
Score3967
Drinking venues within 4 km3241,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7057
Nightclubs within 4 km2661
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 35 points.35
TampaThessaloniki
Score3065
Protected land share 50 km %625
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7283
Park area within 2 km39 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
TampaThessaloniki
Score3041
Tourist attractions within 2 km316
Park area within 2 km39 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 35 points.35
TampaThessaloniki
Score2156
Notable places within 2 km1398
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
TampaThessaloniki
Score4374
Price level global10055.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 3 points.3
TampaThessaloniki
Score7572
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months19
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureTampaThessaloniki
Official languageGreek
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation30 m6 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaThessaloniki
City population384,959309,617
People per km²84816,042
Museums within 10 km631
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4745
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 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.