VacationSelector

Tampa or Zurich?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Tampa
44
match

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

Zurich
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

TampaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
TampaZurich
Score750
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km1023
Coast distance1 km632 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 13 points.13
TampaZurich
Score5467
Restaurants within 2 km of centre359974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3130
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 29 points.29
TampaZurich
Score2756
Museums within 10 km1376
Museums within 2 km of centre1037
Share of museums within 2 km %7749
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 15 points.15
TampaZurich
Score3954
Drinking venues within 4 km324676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7082
Nightclubs within 4 km2674
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 7 points.7
TampaZurich
Score3037
Protected land share 50 km %616
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km39 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 6 points.6
TampaZurich
Score3036
Tourist attractions within 2 km38
Park area within 2 km39 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 38 points.38
TampaZurich
Score2159
Notable places within 2 km13119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
TampaZurich
Score4335
Price level global100110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 22 points.22
TampaZurich
Score7553
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 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

MeasureTampaZurich
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation30 m408 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaZurich
City population384,959452,421
People per km²8485,147
Museums within 10 km663
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4778
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. 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.