VacationSelector

Thessaloniki or York?

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.

York
41
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

ThessalonikiYork
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
ThessalonikiYork
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km42
Coast distance0 km50 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. York leads by 4 points.4
ThessalonikiYork
Score5054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre640361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1531
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 3 points.3
ThessalonikiYork
Score4946
Museums within 10 km3418
Museums within 2 km of centre2216
Share of museums within 2 km %6589
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 24 points.24
ThessalonikiYork
Score6743
Drinking venues within 4 km1,407450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre805353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5778
Nightclubs within 4 km6114
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 32 points.32
ThessalonikiYork
Score6533
Protected land share 50 km %2517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %8395
Park area within 2 km39 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 2 points.2
ThessalonikiYork
Score4143
Tourist attractions within 2 km1613
Park area within 2 km39 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 17 points.17
ThessalonikiYork
Score5639
Notable places within 2 km9837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
ThessalonikiYork
Score7454
Price level global55.884.9
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.16
ThessalonikiYork
Score7256
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 32.1 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 56 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3
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. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThessalonikiYork
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
HeraklionHER
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 15 m
€86-115
SKG · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ChaniaCHQ
1 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 55 m
€108-147
SKG · 14 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BerlinBER
2 h 25 m
€156-243
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LarnacaLCA
2 h 0 m
€105-145
SKG · 14 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureThessalonikiYork
Official languageGreekEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation6 m25 m
Main airportThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureThessalonikiYork
City population309,617208,400
People per km²16,042766
Museums within 10 km3124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4554
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.