VacationSelector

Berlin or Interlaken?

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 nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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Scoreboard

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

BerlinInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Interlaken are level on 0.
BerlinInterlaken
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1712
Coast distance142 km713 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 41 points.41
BerlinInterlaken
Score7029
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3317
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 56 points.56
BerlinInterlaken
Score7923
Museums within 10 km2005
Museums within 2 km of centre812
Share of museums within 2 km %4140
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 72 points.72
BerlinInterlaken
Score764
Drinking venues within 4 km2,11442
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre71938
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3490
Nightclubs within 4 km1353
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 22 points.22
BerlinInterlaken
Score4927
Protected land share 50 km %2019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 62 points.62
BerlinInterlaken
Score7614
Tourist attractions within 2 km5411
Park area within 2 km141 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 62 points.62
BerlinInterlaken
Score8422
Notable places within 2 km48614
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 25 points.25
BerlinInterlaken
Score6035
Price level global75.9110.5
Daily budget€163€248
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 3 points.3
BerlinInterlaken
Score6057
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm34 mm to 68 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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 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

MeasureBerlinInterlaken
Official languageGermanFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m571 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinInterlaken
City population3,782,2026,123
People per km²4,2441,424
Museums within 10 km1583
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8622

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.