VacationSelector

Atlanta or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

AtlantaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
AtlantaRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance373 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaRotterdam
Score5972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2346
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaRotterdam
Score3560
Museums within 10 km4141
Museums within 2 km of centre1620
Share of museums within 2 km %3949
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Atlanta and Rotterdam are level on 49.
AtlantaRotterdam
Score4949
Drinking venues within 4 km531542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5370
Nightclubs within 4 km4640
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaRotterdam
Score3142
Protected land share 50 km %110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km113 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 30 points.30
AtlantaRotterdam
Score3262
Tourist attractions within 2 km227
Park area within 2 km113 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaRotterdam
Score4051
Notable places within 2 km3974
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
AtlantaRotterdam
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaRotterdam
Score6756
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaRotterdam
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
8 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
8 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
CuracaoCUR
4 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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

MeasureAtlantaRotterdam
Official languageDutch
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 or 911
Elevation225 m10 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaRotterdam
City population498,715664,311
People per km²1,4332,080
Museums within 10 km2740
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre5677
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.