VacationSelector

Atlanta or Hamburg?

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.

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

AtlantaHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Hamburg are level on 0.
AtlantaHamburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km016
Coast distance373 km22 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaHamburg
Score5973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2338
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaHamburg
Score3560
Museums within 10 km4194
Museums within 2 km of centre1650
Share of museums within 2 km %3953
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaHamburg
Score4968
Drinking venues within 4 km5311,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5362
Nightclubs within 4 km46119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaHamburg
Score3140
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km113 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 28 points.28
AtlantaHamburg
Score3260
Tourist attractions within 2 km240
Park area within 2 km113 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaHamburg
Score4059
Notable places within 2 km39118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 17 points.17
AtlantaHamburg
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 12 points.12
AtlantaHamburg
Score6755
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm39 mm to 82 mm
Dry months01
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaHamburg
MunichMUC
9 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 30 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
StuttgartSTR
9 h 30 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
HAM · 9 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

MeasureAtlantaHamburg
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 m6 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaHamburg
City population498,7151,910,160
People per km²1,4332,530
Museums within 10 km2777
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5683

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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.