VacationSelector

Barcelona or Munich?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BarcelonaMunich
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
BarcelonaMunich
Score650
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km206
Coast distance2 km579 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 17 points.17
BarcelonaMunich
Score9073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,7861,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4135
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 7 points.7
BarcelonaMunich
Score6861
Museums within 10 km10574
Museums within 2 km of centre4948
Share of museums within 2 km %4765
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 15 points.15
BarcelonaMunich
Score8267
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7111,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6157
Nightclubs within 4 km245103
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 2 points.2
BarcelonaMunich
Score5048
Protected land share 50 km %1017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaMunich
Score6579
Tourist attractions within 2 km6080
Park area within 2 km49 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 5 points.5
BarcelonaMunich
Score7368
Notable places within 2 km258196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 11 points.11
BarcelonaMunich
Score7160
Price level global60.875.9
Daily budget€122€163
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 22 points.22
BarcelonaMunich
Score7856
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm46 mm to 121 mm
Dry months50
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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureBarcelonaMunich
Official languageSpanishGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m519 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaMunich
City population1,731,6491,510,378
People per km²17,0944,861
Museums within 10 km9574
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre12889
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.