VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Cadiz?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamCadiz
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 30 points.30
AmsterdamCadiz
Score4070
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km3329
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 39 points.39
AmsterdamCadiz
Score8344
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4418
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 44 points.44
AmsterdamCadiz
Score8036
Museums within 10 km9823
Museums within 2 km of centre6916
Share of museums within 2 km %7070
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamCadiz
Score7030
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543241
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7073
Nightclubs within 4 km1146
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 34 points.34
AmsterdamCadiz
Score6026
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8245
Park area within 2 km49 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 14 points.14
AmsterdamCadiz
Score6854
Tourist attractions within 2 km7480
Park area within 2 km49 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamCadiz
Score6831
Notable places within 2 km19623
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 13 points.13
AmsterdamCadiz
Score5871
Price level global79.260.8
Daily budget€181€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 26 points.26
AmsterdamCadiz
Score5783
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C16.2 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm0 mm to 89 mm
Dry months05
0255075100

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.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamCadiz
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
BilbaoBIO
2 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 25 m
€152-192
AMS · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€188-239
AMS · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
2 h 20 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 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

MeasureAmsterdamCadiz
Official languageDutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m11 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamCadiz
City population921,468109,950
People per km²4,2089,087
Museums within 10 km10111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9828
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.