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Frankfurt or Rome?

958 km apart, in Germany and Italy. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Frankfurt is the better pick in April to October; Rome in November to February; either in March.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Frankfurt 5° 10d 8° 9d 12° 9d 16° 7d 21° 8d 26° 8d 27° 8d 27° 8d 22° 8d 16° 9d 9° 10d 6° 11d
Rome 13° 8d 14° 7d 16° 8d 18° 6d 22° 7d 27° 2d 30° 2d 30° 3d 26° 7d 22° 8d 17° 12d 14° 9d
Pick RomeRomeeitherFrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurtRomeRome

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

958 km as the crow flies, about 2h 05m in the air.Nonstop, about 13 a day · 4 airlines. By train, about 11h 14m · FR 9651 · IC21. By road, 1,270 km and about 12h 20m.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.