VacationSelector

Tampa or York?

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

Your match

Tampa
✓ Best match
44
match

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

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

TampaYork
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
TampaYork
Score750
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km102
Coast distance1 km50 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Tampa and York are level on 54.
TampaYork
Score5454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre359361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. York leads by 19 points.19
TampaYork
Score2746
Museums within 10 km1318
Museums within 2 km of centre1016
Share of museums within 2 km %7789
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. York leads by 4 points.4
TampaYork
Score3943
Drinking venues within 4 km324450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7078
Nightclubs within 4 km2614
Nature & day trips. York leads by 3 points.3
TampaYork
Score3033
Protected land share 50 km %617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %7295
Park area within 2 km39 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 13 points.13
TampaYork
Score3043
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km39 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. York leads by 18 points.18
TampaYork
Score2139
Notable places within 2 km1337
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. York leads by 11 points.11
TampaYork
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 19 points.19
TampaYork
Score7556
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months11
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CancunCUN
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DublinDUB
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureTampaYork
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation30 m25 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaYork
City population384,959208,400
People per km²848766
Museums within 10 km624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4754
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. 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.