VacationSelector

Barcelona or Hong Kong?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Hong Kong
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BarcelonaHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score6587
Swim season months38
Beaches 10 km2065
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 2 points.2
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score9088
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,7864,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4132
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 32 points.32
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score6836
Museums within 10 km10550
Museums within 2 km of centre4917
Share of museums within 2 km %4734
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 11 points.11
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score8271
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7111,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,6411,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6159
Nightclubs within 4 km24537
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score5064
Protected land share 50 km %108
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5129
Park area within 2 km49 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 7 points.7
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score6558
Tourist attractions within 2 km6027
Park area within 2 km49 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score7369
Notable places within 2 km258204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 8 points.8
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score7163
Price level global60.872
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaHong Kong
Score7874
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months54
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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F
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Daytime high, °C
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaHong Kong
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 5 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 50 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBarcelonaHong Kong
Official languageSpanishStandard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation9 m7 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaHong Kong
City population1,731,6497,413,070
People per km²17,094
Museums within 10 km9539
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre12876
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months8 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. 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. 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. 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.