VacationSelector

Atlanta or Lucerne?

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

Your match

Atlanta
✓ Best match
40
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
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.

AtlantaLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Lucerne are level on 0.
AtlantaLucerne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km016
Coast distance373 km669 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 12 points.12
AtlantaLucerne
Score5947
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2325
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaLucerne
Score3540
Museums within 10 km4123
Museums within 2 km of centre1613
Share of museums within 2 km %3957
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 21 points.21
AtlantaLucerne
Score4928
Drinking venues within 4 km531202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5375
Nightclubs within 4 km4611
Nature & day trips. Atlanta leads by 6 points.6
AtlantaLucerne
Score3125
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Lucerne leads by 6 points.6
AtlantaLucerne
Score3238
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km113 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Atlanta leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaLucerne
Score4035
Notable places within 2 km3929
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Atlanta leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaLucerne
Score4335
Price level global100110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaLucerne
Score6753
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
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). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaLucerne
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
San JoseSJO
3 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 85 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

MeasureAtlantaLucerne
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m436 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaLucerne
City population498,71586,234
People per km²1,4332,963
Museums within 10 km2714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5646

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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.