VacationSelector

Athens or Cadiz?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

AthensCadiz
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 22 points.22
AthensCadiz
Score4870
Swim season months53
Beaches 10 km1429
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 25 points.25
AthensCadiz
Score6944
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2518
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 37 points.37
AthensCadiz
Score7336
Museums within 10 km12223
Museums within 2 km of centre7816
Share of museums within 2 km %6470
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 51 points.51
AthensCadiz
Score8130
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718241
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5073
Nightclubs within 4 km1366
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 19 points.19
AthensCadiz
Score4526
Protected land share 50 km %54
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5045
Park area within 2 km128 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 17 points.17
AthensCadiz
Score7154
Tourist attractions within 2 km6880
Park area within 2 km128 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 44 points.44
AthensCadiz
Score7531
Notable places within 2 km29123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 3 points.3
AthensCadiz
Score7471
Price level global55.860.8
Daily budget€125€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 9 points.9
AthensCadiz
Score7483
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C16.2 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm0 mm to 89 mm
Dry months75
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensCadiz
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
BilbaoBIO
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€71-91
ATH · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
ValenciaVLC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
€134-222
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 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

MeasureAthensCadiz
Official languageGreekSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m11 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensCadiz
City population643,452109,950
People per km²16,4999,087
Museums within 10 km8811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8228
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months3 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.