VacationSelector

Atlanta or Budapest?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
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.

AtlantaBudapest
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Budapest are level on 0.
AtlantaBudapest
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance373 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
AtlantaBudapest
Score5977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,699
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2335
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
AtlantaBudapest
Score3564
Museums within 10 km41144
Museums within 2 km of centre1664
Share of museums within 2 km %3944
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 23 points.23
AtlantaBudapest
Score4972
Drinking venues within 4 km5311,765
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2841,168
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5366
Nightclubs within 4 km4697
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaBudapest
Score3140
Protected land share 50 km %18
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares111 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 39 points.39
AtlantaBudapest
Score3271
Tourist attractions within 2 km275
Park area within 2 km113 hectares111 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
AtlantaBudapest
Score4069
Notable places within 2 km39206
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 37 points.37
AtlantaBudapest
Score4380
Price level global10048
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 3 points.3
AtlantaBudapest
Score6764
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C3.6 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm27 mm to 75 mm
Dry months05
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaBudapest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
12 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaBudapest
Official languageHungarian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Forint (HUF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m117 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaBudapest
City population498,7151,685,209
People per km²1,4333,209
Museums within 10 km2781
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5686

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.