Verona or Venice?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.
Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.
What matters to you?
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.
The verdict
Choose Venice if you want a city trip with swimming attached and a core you can cover on foot, with 20 beaches within reach and a sea warm enough through the summer months.
Choose Verona if you would rather have green space and countryside as part of the stay, with more parks near the centre, more protected land around the city and slightly more going on after dark.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 69 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 4 |
| Beaches 10 km | 2 | 20 |
| Coast distance | 104 km | 4 km |
| Water distance | — | 4 km |
Places to eat. Venice leads by 2 points.2
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 43 | 45 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 477 | 750 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 13 | 10 |
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 16 points.16
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 56 | 72 |
| Museums within 10 km | 20 | 57 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 19 | 45 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 95 | 79 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 5 | 5 |
Nightlife. Verona leads by 5 points.5
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 40 | 35 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 416 | 342 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 269 | 306 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 65 | 89 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 9 | 3 |
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 19 points.19
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 36 | 17 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 9 | 4 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 70 |
| Park area within 2 km | 59 hectares | 15 hectares |
Good for families. Verona leads by 12 points.12
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 69 | 57 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 62 | 72 |
| Park area within 2 km | 59 hectares | 15 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 4 | 3 |
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 30 points.30
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 53 | 83 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 82 | 464 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Verona and Venice are level on 68.
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 68 | 68 |
| Price level global | 64.9 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €155 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 1 points.1
| Verona | Venice | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 65 | 66 |
| Monthly daytime high | 6.8 °C to 30.3 °C | 8 °C to 30.4 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 38 mm to 85 mm | 36 mm to 106 mm |
| Dry months | 1 | 2 |
Where they differ
Venice is the choice for water and for walking. It has 20 beaches nearby against Verona's 2, and 4 months when the sea reaches 21°C or more, where Verona has none. Its notable places also sit many times more tightly around the centre, so full days need no transport.
Verona is the greener option: 9% of the land around it is protected against 4% around Venice, and it has about three times as much park space near the centre, so trips out of the city form a bigger part of a stay.
Where they are alike
Weather is where they are nearest. Both climb from around 7-8°C in January to 30°C in July and August, with similar sunshine across the year and cold, damp late autumns.
Eating and evenings are close as well. Venice has about twice as many restaurants near the centre, while Verona's kitchens span a wider range, so what differs is choice rather than quantity. In both, the bars and clubs sit near the centre rather than scattered.
Which traveller are you?
If you want a city and swimming in the same week, Venice is the answer: 20 beaches within reach and 4 months when the sea is warm enough to use them. Verona has effectively no coast.
For museums and sightseeing done on foot, Venice again: about three times as many museums as Verona, and the notable places sit close enough together to cover several in a day without transport.
Families and anyone who wants open air will do better in Verona: much more park space near the centre, 4 theme parks within reach against 3, and 9% of the surrounding land protected.
What the numbers don't tell you
The value comparison between these two carries no information: it is a national price level, identical for both by construction. The daily budget of €155 is a single national estimate rather than a measurement of either city, so treat neither as the cheaper trip.
Venice's beach advantage is also narrower than it looks. The sea is warm enough for swimming in only 4 months, and those are also the hottest, at 30°C. Autumn is the wettest stretch in both, and Venice's September, still warm, is its wettest month at 106mm.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).
Venice is at its best from June to August: highs of 28-30°C and the sea at 23-26°C, with July the driest of the three at 65mm. September stays warm at 25°C but is the wettest month at 106mm.
Verona suits May and June, warm at 24-28°C and drier than Venice in May, at 68mm against 91mm. September is warm again at 25°C and with less rain, 85mm. Both are cold in January, near 7-8°C.
Getting there
| Flying from | Verona | Venice |
|---|---|---|
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 55 m no fares VRN · 10 km | 2 h 0 m €46-119 1 stop VCE · 7 km |
| CataniaCTA | 1 h 45 m €40-90 VRN · 10 km | 1 h 45 m no fares VCE · 7 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 35 m no fares VRN · 10 km | 1 h 40 m €68-109 VCE · 7 km |
| ViennaVIE | 1 h 10 m €65-121 VCE · 106 km | 1 h 10 m €65-121 VCE · 7 km |
| PalermoPMO | 1 h 40 m no fares VRN · 10 km | 1 h 40 m €43-64 VCE · 7 km |
| BucharestOTP, BBU | 1 h 55 m €50-66 TSF · 96 km | 1 h 55 m €50-66 TSF · 26 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 5 h 55 m €366-421 2 stops VCE · 106 km | 5 h 55 m €366-421 2 stops VCE · 7 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 30 m €637-650 VCE · 106 km | 8 h 30 m €637-650 VCE · 7 km |
| MaleMLE | 9 h 35 m no fares VRN · 10 km | 9 h 35 m no fares VRN · 113 km |
| CancunCUN | 11 h 10 m no fares VRN · 10 km | 11 h 10 m no fares VRN · 113 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
| Measure | Verona | Venice |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Italian | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CFL230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 59 m | 2 m |
| Main airport | Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations | Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Verona | Venice |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 255,588 | 250,369 |
| People per km² | 1,285 | 602 |
| Museums within 10 km | 18 | 52 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 5 | 5 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 35 | 46 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | – | 4 months |
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