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The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Venice by David Vives, Pexels License; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Venice or Virginia Beach?

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
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Venice 60, Virginia Beach 42: Venice leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Venice 94, Virginia Beach 30: Venice leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Venice 27, Virginia Beach 37: Virginia Beach leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Venice 45, Virginia Beach 56: Virginia Beach leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Venice 86, Virginia Beach 64: Venice leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Venice 45, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Venice 68, Virginia Beach 27: Venice leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Venice 57, Virginia Beach 32: Venice leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Venice 20, Virginia Beach 40: Virginia Beach leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Venice 62, Virginia Beach 38: Venice leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Venice 40, Virginia Beach 32: Venice leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Venice and Virginia Beach.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Virginia Beach
46match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVeniceVirginia Beach
Official languageItalian-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m7 m
Main airportVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureVeniceVirginia Beach
City population250,369459,470
People per km²602-
Museums within 10 km522
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.