VacationSelector

Tampa or Valencia?

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 with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

TampaValencia
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
TampaValencia
Score7567
Swim season months85
Beaches 10 km1012
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 24 points.24
TampaValencia
Score5478
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3591,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3133
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
TampaValencia
Score2755
Museums within 10 km1359
Museums within 2 km of centre1026
Share of museums within 2 km %7744
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 31 points.31
TampaValencia
Score3970
Drinking venues within 4 km3241,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7063
Nightclubs within 4 km26108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 23 points.23
TampaValencia
Score3053
Protected land share 50 km %610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7264
Park area within 2 km39 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
TampaValencia
Score3042
Tourist attractions within 2 km312
Park area within 2 km39 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 31 points.31
TampaValencia
Score2152
Notable places within 2 km1378
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
TampaValencia
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
TampaValencia
Score7584
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months18
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€151-206
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MunichMUC
10 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 20 m
€196-284
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
3 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureTampaValencia
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation30 m15 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaValencia
City population384,959840,792
People per km²8486,242
Museums within 10 km646
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4792
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.