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The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Venice by David Vives, Pexels License; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Venice or Victoria Falls?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’s own page.

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Venice 56, Victoria Falls 7: Venice leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Venice 60, Victoria Falls 24: Venice leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Venice 94, Victoria Falls 12: Venice leads by 82 points.
Nightlife. Venice 27, Victoria Falls 8: Venice leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Venice 45, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 49 points.
Day trips. Venice 86, Victoria Falls 22: Venice leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Venice 45, Victoria Falls 38: Venice leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Venice 68, Victoria Falls 45: Venice leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Venice 57, Victoria Falls 18: Venice leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Venice 20, Victoria Falls 32: Victoria Falls leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Venice 62, Victoria Falls 10: Venice leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Venice 40, Victoria Falls 34: Venice leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Venice and Victoria Falls.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVeniceVictoria Falls
Official languageItalianEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation2 m961 m
Main airportVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureVeniceVictoria Falls
City population250,36933,060
People per km²602-
Museums within 10 km522
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.