VacationSelector

Beijing or Interlaken?

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

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BeijingInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Interlaken are level on 0.
BeijingInterlaken
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance145 km713 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 40 points.40
BeijingInterlaken
Score6323
Museums within 10 km955
Museums within 2 km of centre152
Share of museums within 2 km %1640
Unesco sites within 50 km62
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Beijing leads by 8 points.8
BeijingInterlaken
Score3527
Protected land share 50 km %319
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km143 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 63 points.63
BeijingInterlaken
Score7714
Tourist attractions within 2 km4111
Park area within 2 km143 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km120
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 28 points.28
BeijingInterlaken
Score5022
Notable places within 2 km6914
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 44 points.44
BeijingInterlaken
Score7935
Price level global49110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 9 points.9
BeijingInterlaken
Score6657
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months83
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBeijingInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 55 m
€151-190
PKX · 45 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 25 m
€217-253
PKX · 45 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
4 h 30 m
€173-234
1 stop
PKX · 45 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
21 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
8 h 20 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

MeasureBeijingInterlaken
Official languagePutonghuaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m571 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingInterlaken
City population21,893,0956,123
People per km²1,3341,424
Museums within 10 km833
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre2922

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.