VacationSelector

Berlin or Bologna?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Bologna
52
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BerlinBologna
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Bologna are level on 0.
BerlinBologna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km172
Coast distance142 km74 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 12 points.12
BerlinBologna
Score7058
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117822
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3320
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 12 points.12
BerlinBologna
Score7967
Museums within 10 km20058
Museums within 2 km of centre8143
Share of museums within 2 km %4174
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinBologna
Score7653
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114720
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719531
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3474
Nightclubs within 4 km13530
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 10 points.10
BerlinBologna
Score4939
Protected land share 50 km %207
Landscape blanket share 50 km %161
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 21 points.21
BerlinBologna
Score7655
Tourist attractions within 2 km5432
Park area within 2 km141 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 24 points.24
BerlinBologna
Score8460
Notable places within 2 km486120
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 8 points.8
BerlinBologna
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BerlinBologna
Score6067
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C7 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm34 mm to 75 mm
Dry months35
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinBologna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 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

MeasureBerlinBologna
Official languageGermanItalian
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
Elevation34 m54 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinBologna
City population3,782,202387,971
People per km²4,2442,754
Museums within 10 km15866
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre8662

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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). 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.