VacationSelector

Venice or York?

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

Your match

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

VeniceYork
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
VeniceYork
Score690
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km202
Coast distance4 km50 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. York leads by 9 points.9
VeniceYork
Score4554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre750361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1031
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 26 points.26
VeniceYork
Score7246
Museums within 10 km5718
Museums within 2 km of centre4516
Share of museums within 2 km %7989
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. York leads by 8 points.8
VeniceYork
Score3543
Drinking venues within 4 km342450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8978
Nightclubs within 4 km314
Nature & day trips. York leads by 16 points.16
VeniceYork
Score1733
Protected land share 50 km %417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %7095
Park area within 2 km15 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 14 points.14
VeniceYork
Score5743
Tourist attractions within 2 km7213
Park area within 2 km15 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 44 points.44
VeniceYork
Score8339
Notable places within 2 km46437
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 14 points.14
VeniceYork
Score6854
Price level global64.984.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 10 points.10
VeniceYork
Score6656
Monthly daytime high8 °C to 30.4 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 106 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months21
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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. Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVeniceYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 26 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
€107-148
1 stop
TSF · 26 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureVeniceYork
Official languageItalianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation2 m25 m
Main airportVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureVeniceYork
City population250,369208,400
People per km²602766
Museums within 10 km5224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre4654
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.