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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Barcelona or Hiroshima?

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 Barcelona for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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. Barcelona 75, Hiroshima 30: Barcelona leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Hiroshima 66: Barcelona leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Hiroshima 60: Barcelona leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Hiroshima 45: Barcelona leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona 72, Hiroshima 62: Barcelona leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Barcelona and Hiroshima are level on 80.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Hiroshima 60: Barcelona leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Hiroshima 74: Barcelona leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Hiroshima 52: Barcelona leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Hiroshima 38: Barcelona leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona 38, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Hiroshima
56match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BarcelonaHiroshima

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaHiroshima
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation9 m3 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaHiroshima
City population1,731,6491,198,021
People per km²17,0941,324
Museums within 10 km9518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.