VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Munich?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families 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.

AmsterdamMunich
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamMunich
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km336
Coast distance24 km579 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 10 points.10
AmsterdamMunich
Score8373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9571,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4435
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 19 points.19
AmsterdamMunich
Score8061
Museums within 10 km9874
Museums within 2 km of centre6948
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 3 points.3
AmsterdamMunich
Score7067
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5431,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7057
Nightclubs within 4 km114103
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamMunich
Score6048
Protected land share 50 km %2117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 11 points.11
AmsterdamMunich
Score6879
Tourist attractions within 2 km7480
Park area within 2 km49 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Amsterdam and Munich are level on 68.
AmsterdamMunich
Score6868
Notable places within 2 km196196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 2 points.2
AmsterdamMunich
Score5860
Price level global79.275.9
Daily budget€181€163
Year-round weather. Amsterdam leads by 1 points.1
AmsterdamMunich
Score5756
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
BerlinBER
1 h 20 m
€150-227
AMS · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureAmsterdamMunich
Official languageDutchGerman
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 m519 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamMunich
City population921,4681,510,378
People per km²4,2084,861
Museums within 10 km10174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre9889
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.