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Miami

Match

56

  • Beach first67
  • Culture first47
  • Food & nightlife53
  • Family trip59
  • Nature first63
  • Good weather65
  • On a budget55

The nine measures

Each scored 0 to 100 against fixed anchors, so a score means the same thing on every page. Open a row for the figures behind it.

Beaches & swimming. Scores 95 out of 100.95
Score95
Swim season months12
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance1 km
Water distance1 km

Sea reaches 21 °C or more in 12 months, 20 beaches lie within 10 km, and the water is 1 km away.

Places to eat. Scores 65 out of 100.65
Score65
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km29

898 restaurants within 2 km of the centre, spread across an effective 29 kitchens.

Museums & heritage. Scores 23 out of 100.23
Score23
Museums within 10 km28
Museums within 2 km of centre6
Share of museums within 2 km %21
Unesco sites within 50 km0

28 museums mapped within 10 km, 21% of them within 2 km of the centre, and 0 whole UNESCO inscriptions within 50 km.

Nightlife. Scores 50 out of 100.50
Score50
Drinking venues within 4 km538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %53
Nightclubs within 4 km63

538 places to drink within 4 km, 63 nightclubs among them, and 53% of the drinking venues within 2 km of the centre.

Nature & day trips. Scores 72 out of 100.72
Score72
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %0
Land share of disc %48
Park area within 2 km50 hectares

16% of the 50 km disc around the city is protected land, and there are 50 hectares of park within 2 km of the centre.

Good for families. Scores 44 out of 100.44
Score44
Tourist attractions within 2 km14
Park area within 2 km50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km2

14 tourist attractions within 2 km beside 50 hectares of park, and 2 theme parks within 30 km.

Sights concentration. Scores 42 out of 100.42
Score42
Notable places within 2 km45
Min wikipedia languages5

45 notable places within 2 km of the centre, counting places with a Wikipedia presence in at least five languages.

Value for money. Scores 43 out of 100.43
Score43
Price level global100
Daily budget

National price level of 100 against the United States at 100, scored on a fixed scale from 20, the cheapest countries anyone travels to, to 160, the most expensive.

Year-round weather. Scores 74 out of 100.74
Score74
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months0

Daytime highs run 25-33 °C across the year, with 0 month(s) at 40 mm of rain or less.

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When should you go?

The figures behind each month, shaded against this city's own year: the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest.

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Daytime high, °C
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiami
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
BogotaBOG
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
Punta CanaPUJ
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 30 m
€103-188
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€127-180
MIA · 7 km

The busiest departure cities for Miami, 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. 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. 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

MeasureMiami
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911
Elevation2 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiami
City population442,241
People per km²3,046
Museums within 10 km17
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km0
Distinct cuisines in the centre39
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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Sources

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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Every destination we have measured.