VacationSelector

Atlanta or Zurich?

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 and value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

AtlantaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Zurich are level on 0.
AtlantaZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km023
Coast distance373 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaZurich
Score5967
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2330
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 21 points.21
AtlantaZurich
Score3556
Museums within 10 km4176
Museums within 2 km of centre1637
Share of museums within 2 km %3949
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaZurich
Score4954
Drinking venues within 4 km531676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5382
Nightclubs within 4 km4674
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 6 points.6
AtlantaZurich
Score3137
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Zurich leads by 4 points.4
AtlantaZurich
Score3236
Tourist attractions within 2 km28
Park area within 2 km113 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaZurich
Score4059
Notable places within 2 km39119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Atlanta leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaZurich
Score4335
Price level global100110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaZurich
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
Zurich
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
Zurich
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
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Zurich
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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
San JoseSJO
3 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 81 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

MeasureAtlantaZurich
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 m408 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaZurich
City population498,715452,421
People per km²1,4335,147
Museums within 10 km2763
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5678

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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.