Rome vs Paris

We mapped every place in 53 travel-creator videos filmed in Rome (40 creators, 233 spots) and 130 videos in Paris (59 creators, 404 spots), then compared what creators eat, how far one video walks, what the spots charge and when they close. A difference is only called when it holds at p < 0.01 with a 1.3x gap.

The short version

• A Paris video covers more ground: its spots sit a median 1.4 km from their middle, against 0.9 km in Rome.
• Rome eats later: 82% of its food spots stay open past 10 pm on a weeknight, against 54% in Paris.
• Rome creators film street food & casual 2.1x as often as Paris creators (12% of spots against 6%).

Also worth knowing (descriptive, not a comparison):

• One base in Rome, around Trevi Fountain, puts 46% of its filmed spots within a 15-minute walk.
• One base in Paris, around Louvre Museum, puts 30% of its filmed spots within a 15-minute walk.
• The named spot most Rome creators agree on: Colosseum (19 creators).
• The named spot most Paris creators agree on: Eiffel Tower (22 creators).

How far you walk

In a typical Rome video the spots sit within 0.9 km of their middle; in Paris, 1.4 km. That gap is real (Mann-Whitney p = 0.0057, rank-biserial r = 0.29). 96% of Rome videos stay walkable (2.5 km) against 93% of Paris' (no real difference).

One video maps a median of 5 spots in Rome and 4 in Paris.

What closes when

• Monday: 18% of Rome's food spots closed, 21% of Paris' (no real difference)
• Sunday: 28% of Rome's food spots closed, 21% of Paris' (a gap, but p = 0.31: not one we call)
• Monday sights and museums: 12% closed in Rome, 26% in Paris (a gap, but p = 0.19: not one we call)
• Open past 10 pm on a weeknight: 82% of food spots in Rome, 54% in Paris (p < 0.001)

From Google opening hours of the 65 food spots in Rome and 119 in Paris that have full-week hours.

Where creators agree

11% of Rome's mapped spots were filmed by three or more creators, against 12% of Paris'; 80% and 75% are one creator's pick.

In Rome: Colosseum (19 creators); Trevi Fountain (15 creators); Roman Forum (13 creators); Pantheon (11 creators); Spanish Steps (10 creators); All'Antico Vinaio (7 creators). 9 more are on the locked Rome map (6 to see and do · 3 to eat).

In Paris: Eiffel Tower (22 creators); Louvre Museum (20 creators); Arc de Triomphe (14 creators); Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris (12 creators); Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre (10 creators); Musée d'Orsay (9 creators). 9 more are on the locked Paris map (6 to see and do · 2 to shop · 1 to eat).

Where to stay

• Rome: around Trevi Fountain: 106 filmed spots within a 15-minute walk (46% of Rome's), from 38 creators.
• Paris: around Louvre Museum: 121 filmed spots within a 15-minute walk (30% of Paris'), from 49 creators.

What it costs

On Google's price levels, 19% of Rome's food spots are "$" and 28% "$$$" or more; in Paris, 17% and 34%. The typical spot is $$ in both.

How we measured this

Places come from Varedelo's maps of each creator video, grouped into kinds and assigned to a city by distance from its centre. Dishes come from each video's dish list and are counted by creators. Spot-level tests treat spots as independent, which overstates certainty when spots cluster inside one video, so we only call a difference at p < 0.01 with a 1.3x gap. Opening hours and price levels are Google's; hours that cover only part of the week are left out. Spots counted but not named are part of Varedelo's locked city maps. Covers the creators Varedelo maps, not all of YouTube. Data as of 2026-10-30.