VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Interlaken?

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 nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

AmsterdamInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3312
Coast distance24 km713 km
Water distance24 km—
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 54 points.54
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score8329
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4417
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 57 points.57
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score8023
Museums within 10 km985
Museums within 2 km of centre692
Share of museums within 2 km %7040
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 66 points.66
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score704
Drinking venues within 4 km1,54342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,07838
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7090
Nightclubs within 4 km1143
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 33 points.33
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score6027
Protected land share 50 km %2119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 54 points.54
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score6814
Tourist attractions within 2 km7411
Park area within 2 km49 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 46 points.46
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score6822
Notable places within 2 km19614
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 23 points.23
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score5835
Price level global79.2110.5
Daily budget€181€248
Year-round weather. Amsterdam and Interlaken are level on 57.
AmsterdamInterlaken
Score5757
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months03
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BerlinBER
1 h 20 m
€150-227
AMS · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€188-239
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 100 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureAmsterdamInterlaken
Official languageDutchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m571 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamInterlaken
City population921,4686,123
People per km²4,2081,424
Museums within 10 km1013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre9822
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.