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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Barcelona or Turin?

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
  • families

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

Choose Turin for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Barcelona leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Turin 81: Barcelona leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Turin 78: Barcelona leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Turin 50: Barcelona leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona 72, Turin 80: Turin leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Barcelona 80, Turin 84: Turin leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Turin 57: Barcelona leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Turin 68: Barcelona leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Turin 58: Barcelona leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Turin 58: Turin leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Turin 65: Barcelona leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona 38, Turin 40: Turin leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Turin.

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.

Turin
61match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Turin 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaTurin
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m239 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaTurin
City population1,731,649841,600
People per km²17,0946,474
Museums within 10 km9572
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.