VacationSelector

Berlin or Helsinki?

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 museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Helsinki
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BerlinHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 60 points.60
BerlinHelsinki
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km17157
Coast distance142 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 1 points.1
BerlinHelsinki
Score7071
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3338
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 30 points.30
BerlinHelsinki
Score7949
Museums within 10 km20057
Museums within 2 km of centre8123
Share of museums within 2 km %4140
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 20 points.20
BerlinHelsinki
Score7656
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3475
Nightclubs within 4 km13540
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 7 points.7
BerlinHelsinki
Score4942
Protected land share 50 km %203
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km141 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 18 points.18
BerlinHelsinki
Score7658
Tourist attractions within 2 km5420
Park area within 2 km141 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 11 points.11
BerlinHelsinki
Score8473
Notable places within 2 km486257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinHelsinki
Score6056
Price level global75.981.6
Daily budget€163€184
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 12 points.12
BerlinHelsinki
Score6048
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months33
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinHelsinki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 40 m
€83-100
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€206-225
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 5 m
€57-77
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 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

MeasureBerlinHelsinki
Official languageGermanFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m17 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinHelsinki
City population3,782,202694,392
People per km²4,2443,239
Museums within 10 km15874
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8678
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.