VacationSelector

Tampa or Vancouver?

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 year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
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.

TampaVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 15 points.15
TampaVancouver
Score7560
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km10109
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 20 points.20
TampaVancouver
Score5474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3591,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 7 points.7
TampaVancouver
Score2734
Museums within 10 km1327
Museums within 2 km of centre1015
Share of museums within 2 km %7756
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 18 points.18
TampaVancouver
Score3957
Drinking venues within 4 km324848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7071
Nightclubs within 4 km2644
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 47 points.47
TampaVancouver
Score3077
Protected land share 50 km %619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7260
Park area within 2 km39 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 23 points.23
TampaVancouver
Score3053
Tourist attractions within 2 km315
Park area within 2 km39 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Vancouver leads by 27 points.27
TampaVancouver
Score2148
Notable places within 2 km1363
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
TampaVancouver
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 22 points.22
TampaVancouver
Score7553
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm42 mm to 245 mm
Dry months10
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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaVancouver
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
4 h 5 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
CancunCUN
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 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

MeasureTampaVancouver
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation30 m2 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaVancouver
City population384,959662,248
People per km²8485,759
Museums within 10 km626
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4785
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

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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. 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.