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The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-BadenThe Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse
Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier

Photos: Baden-Baden by Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Baden-Baden or Clearwater?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Baden-Baden for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Baden-Baden’s own page.

Choose Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Baden-Baden 8, Clearwater 90: Clearwater leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Baden-Baden 45, Clearwater 38: Baden-Baden leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Baden-Baden 52, Clearwater 18: Baden-Baden leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Baden-Baden 15, Clearwater 34: Clearwater leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baden-Baden 70, Clearwater 55: Baden-Baden leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Baden-Baden 78, Clearwater 58: Baden-Baden leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Baden-Baden 50, Clearwater 78: Clearwater leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Baden-Baden 62, Clearwater 28: Baden-Baden leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Baden-Baden 38, Clearwater 27: Baden-Baden leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Baden-Baden 30, Clearwater 35: Clearwater leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baden-Baden 58, Clearwater 36: Baden-Baden leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden 96, Clearwater 40: Baden-Baden leads by 56 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Clearwater.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Baden-Baden
Best match
50match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Clearwater
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Baden-Baden in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
117 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Clearwater has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBaden-BadenClearwater
Official languageGerman-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation181 m9 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenClearwater
City population56,952117,292
People per km²4061,154
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.