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Thessaloniki or Verona?

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

Your match

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

ThessalonikiVerona
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
ThessalonikiVerona
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km42
Coast distance0 km104 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Thessaloniki leads by 7 points.7
ThessalonikiVerona
Score5043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre640477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1513
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 7 points.7
ThessalonikiVerona
Score4956
Museums within 10 km3420
Museums within 2 km of centre2219
Share of museums within 2 km %6595
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 27 points.27
ThessalonikiVerona
Score6740
Drinking venues within 4 km1,407416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre805269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5765
Nightclubs within 4 km619
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 29 points.29
ThessalonikiVerona
Score6536
Protected land share 50 km %259
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km39 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 28 points.28
ThessalonikiVerona
Score4169
Tourist attractions within 2 km1662
Park area within 2 km39 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 3 points.3
ThessalonikiVerona
Score5653
Notable places within 2 km9882
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.6
ThessalonikiVerona
Score7468
Price level global55.864.9
Daily budget€125€155
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 7 points.7
ThessalonikiVerona
Score7265
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 32.1 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 56 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months91
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Verona
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThessalonikiVerona
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€113-145
VCE · 106 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 15 m
€86-115
SKG · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 96 km
BerlinBER
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€99-129
VCE · 106 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€172-262
1 stop
VRN · 10 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 10 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

MeasureThessalonikiVerona
Official languageGreekItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m59 m
Main airportThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureThessalonikiVerona
City population309,617255,588
People per km²16,0421,285
Museums within 10 km3118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4535
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.