London or Rome?

1,430 km apart, in United Kingdom 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.

• London United Kingdom · best May, Jun, Aug
• Rome Italy · best Jun, Jul, Aug

Month by month

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

• Cost of living — London: expensive, about 89% of the United States; Rome: moderate, about 69% of the United States.
• Currency — London: Pound sterling; Rome: Q4916.
• Plugs — London: type G, 230 V; Rome: type C and F and L, 230 V.
• Driving — London: on the left; Rome: on the right.
• Travel advice — London: —; Rome: no advice against travel.

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

1,430 km as the crow flies, about 2h 40m in the air.Nonstop, about 11 a day · British Airways, ITA Airways. By train, about 18h 48m · TGV INOUI 9255 · FlixBus N522. By bus, about 31h 29m · FlixBus N521 · FlixBus 700. By road, 1,875 km and about 19h 06m.

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.

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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.