VacationSelector

Atlanta or Malaga?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AtlantaMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
AtlantaMalaga
Score066
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km021
Coast distance373 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaMalaga
Score5969
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2334
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 18 points.18
AtlantaMalaga
Score3553
Museums within 10 km4140
Museums within 2 km of centre1635
Share of museums within 2 km %3988
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaMalaga
Score4954
Drinking venues within 4 km531715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5368
Nightclubs within 4 km4645
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 12 points.12
AtlantaMalaga
Score3143
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10063
Park area within 2 km113 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 21 points.21
AtlantaMalaga
Score3253
Tourist attractions within 2 km233
Park area within 2 km113 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Atlanta leads by 3 points.3
AtlantaMalaga
Score4037
Notable places within 2 km3933
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
AtlantaMalaga
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 15 points.15
AtlantaMalaga
Score6782
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm0 mm to 88 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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
8 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaMalaga
Official languageSpanish
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 m18 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaMalaga
City population498,715599,063
People per km²1,4331,517
Museums within 10 km2732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5665
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.