VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Liverpool?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Liverpool
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AmsterdamLiverpool
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 20 points.20
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score4060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3334
Coast distance24 km2 km
Water distance24 km2 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 23 points.23
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score8360
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957542
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4432
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 37 points.37
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score8043
Museums within 10 km9823
Museums within 2 km of centre6912
Share of museums within 2 km %7052
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 9 points.9
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score7061
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543977
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078651
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7067
Nightclubs within 4 km11479
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 2 points.2
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score6058
Protected land share 50 km %21—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8260
Park area within 2 km49 hectares81 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 10 points.10
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score6858
Tourist attractions within 2 km7425
Park area within 2 km49 hectares81 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 18 points.18
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score6850
Notable places within 2 km19668
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score5854
Price level global79.284.9
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Amsterdam leads by 3 points.3
AmsterdamLiverpool
Score5754
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months00
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamLiverpool
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 55 m
€133-166
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 35 m
€182
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
55 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
BridgetownBGI
9 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 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

MeasureAmsterdamLiverpool
Official languageDutchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112 or 999
Elevation-2 m70 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamLiverpool
City population921,468513,441
People per km²4,2084,592
Museums within 10 km10131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre9849
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.