VacationSelector

Athens or Hong Kong?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Athens
68
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Hong Kong
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

AthensHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 39 points.39
AthensHong Kong
Score4887
Swim season months58
Beaches 10 km1465
Coast distance6 km0 km
Water distance6 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 19 points.19
AthensHong Kong
Score6988
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4314,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2532
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 37 points.37
AthensHong Kong
Score7336
Museums within 10 km12250
Museums within 2 km of centre7817
Share of museums within 2 km %6434
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 10 points.10
AthensHong Kong
Score8171
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7181,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,3541,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5059
Nightclubs within 4 km13637
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 19 points.19
AthensHong Kong
Score4564
Protected land share 50 km %58
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5029
Park area within 2 km128 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 13 points.13
AthensHong Kong
Score7158
Tourist attractions within 2 km6827
Park area within 2 km128 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 6 points.6
AthensHong Kong
Score7569
Notable places within 2 km291204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 11 points.11
AthensHong Kong
Score7463
Price level global55.872
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens and Hong Kong are level on 74.
AthensHong Kong
Score7474
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months74
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromAthensHong Kong
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
9 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€214-253
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureAthensHong Kong
Official languageGreekStandard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation74 m7 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensHong Kong
City population643,4527,413,070
People per km²16,499
Museums within 10 km8839
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8276
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months8 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. 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.