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Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Victoria Falls or York?

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 Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose York for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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. Victoria Falls 7, York 14: York leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Victoria Falls 24, York 42: York leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Victoria Falls 12, York 70: York leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Victoria Falls 8, York 36: York leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Victoria Falls 94, York 62: Victoria Falls leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Victoria Falls 22, York 80: York leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Victoria Falls 38, York 60: York leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Victoria Falls 45, York 72: York leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Victoria Falls 18, York 46: York leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Victoria Falls 32, York 38: York leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Victoria Falls 10, York 38: York leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Victoria Falls and York are level on 34.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Victoria Falls and York.

Your match

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

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

York
Best match
49match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Victoria Falls in July

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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Victoria FallsYork

Where the figures come from

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVictoria FallsYork
Official languageEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, BarweEnglish
CurrencyZimbabwe Gold (ZWG)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number999112 or 999
Elevation961 m25 m
Main airportVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureVictoria FallsYork
City population33,060208,400
People per km²-766
Museums within 10 km224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.