VacationSelector

Atlanta or Cologne?

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.

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

AtlantaCologne
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Cologne are level on 0.
AtlantaCologne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km040
Coast distance373 km256 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaCologne
Score5972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,142
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2335
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaCologne
Score3560
Museums within 10 km4147
Museums within 2 km of centre1627
Share of museums within 2 km %3957
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 15 points.15
AtlantaCologne
Score4964
Drinking venues within 4 km5311,107
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284727
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5366
Nightclubs within 4 km4690
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 40 points.40
AtlantaCologne
Score3171
Protected land share 50 km %153
Landscape blanket share 50 km %052
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 40 points.40
AtlantaCologne
Score3272
Tourist attractions within 2 km243
Park area within 2 km113 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km16
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaCologne
Score4053
Notable places within 2 km3981
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cologne leads by 17 points.17
AtlantaCologne
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaCologne
Score6760
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C6.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm48 mm to 81 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1

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). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaCologne
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
MunichMUC
9 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
CGN · 15 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

MeasureAtlantaCologne
Official languageGerman
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m59 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaCologne
City population498,7151,024,621
People per km²1,4332,530
Museums within 10 km2740
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre5684

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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.