VacationSelector

Barcelona or Interlaken?

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 nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BarcelonaInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score650
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2012
Coast distance2 km713 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 61 points.61
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score9029
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4117
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 45 points.45
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score6823
Museums within 10 km1055
Museums within 2 km of centre492
Share of museums within 2 km %4740
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 78 points.78
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score824
Drinking venues within 4 km2,71142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,64138
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6190
Nightclubs within 4 km2453
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 23 points.23
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score5027
Protected land share 50 km %1019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 51 points.51
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score6514
Tourist attractions within 2 km6011
Park area within 2 km49 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 51 points.51
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score7322
Notable places within 2 km25814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 36 points.36
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score7135
Price level global60.8110.5
Daily budget€122€248
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 21 points.21
BarcelonaInterlaken
Score7857
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months53
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureBarcelonaInterlaken
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m571 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaInterlaken
City population1,731,6496,123
People per km²17,0941,424
Museums within 10 km953
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre12822
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.