VacationSelector

Atlanta or Lyon?

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.

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on good for families 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.

AtlantaLyon
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Lyon are level on 0.
AtlantaLyon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km026
Coast distance373 km253 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaLyon
Score5979
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2340
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaLyon
Score3555
Museums within 10 km4153
Museums within 2 km of centre1625
Share of museums within 2 km %3947
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaLyon
Score4958
Drinking venues within 4 km531866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5371
Nightclubs within 4 km4647
Nature & day trips. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
AtlantaLyon
Score3133
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 27 points.27
AtlantaLyon
Score3259
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km113 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaLyon
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km3986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaLyon
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 3 points.3
AtlantaLyon
Score6764
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
2 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 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

MeasureAtlantaLyon
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m160 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaLyon
City population498,715519,127
People per km²1,43310,838
Museums within 10 km2742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre56148

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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.