VacationSelector

Berlin or Lyon?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Lyon
52
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

BerlinLyon
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Lyon are level on 0.
BerlinLyon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1726
Coast distance142 km253 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 9 points.9
BerlinLyon
Score7079
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3340
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 24 points.24
BerlinLyon
Score7955
Museums within 10 km20053
Museums within 2 km of centre8125
Share of museums within 2 km %4147
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 18 points.18
BerlinLyon
Score7658
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3471
Nightclubs within 4 km13547
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 16 points.16
BerlinLyon
Score4933
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %166
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 17 points.17
BerlinLyon
Score7659
Tourist attractions within 2 km5425
Park area within 2 km141 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 30 points.30
BerlinLyon
Score8454
Notable places within 2 km48686
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
BerlinLyon
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 4 points.4
BerlinLyon
Score6064
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm43 mm to 101 mm
Dry months30
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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lyon
9
10
12
14
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
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
TunisTUN
2 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureBerlinLyon
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m160 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinLyon
City population3,782,202519,127
People per km²4,24410,838
Museums within 10 km15842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre86148

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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.