VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Cordoba?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

AmsterdamCordoba
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamCordoba
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance24 km134 km
Water distance24 km—
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 36 points.36
AmsterdamCordoba
Score8347
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957616
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4413
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 33 points.33
AmsterdamCordoba
Score8047
Museums within 10 km9820
Museums within 2 km of centre6919
Share of museums within 2 km %7095
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 27 points.27
AmsterdamCordoba
Score7043
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543444
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7080
Nightclubs within 4 km11414
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 23 points.23
AmsterdamCordoba
Score6037
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares108 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 5 points.5
AmsterdamCordoba
Score6863
Tourist attractions within 2 km7459
Park area within 2 km49 hectares108 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 24 points.24
AmsterdamCordoba
Score6844
Notable places within 2 km19648
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cordoba leads by 13 points.13
AmsterdamCordoba
Score5871
Price level global79.260.8
Daily budget€181€122
Year-round weather. Cordoba leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamCordoba
Score5772
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C15.1 °C to 37.1 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm1 mm to 91 mm
Dry months04
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
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Cordoba
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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). Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamCordoba
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
€202-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 111 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€188-239
AMS · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 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

MeasureAmsterdamCordoba
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 m120 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamCordoba
City population921,468323,262
People per km²4,208258
Museums within 10 km10116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre9827
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.