VacationSelector

Berlin or Philadelphia?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on 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.

BerlinPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Philadelphia are level on 0.
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance142 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score7077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3335
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score7960
Museums within 10 km20089
Museums within 2 km of centre8148
Share of museums within 2 km %4154
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 17 points.17
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score7659
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3462
Nightclubs within 4 km13541
Nature & day trips. Berlin and Philadelphia are level on 49.
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score4949
Protected land share 50 km %2014
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km141 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score7653
Tourist attractions within 2 km5416
Park area within 2 km141 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 30 points.30
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score8454
Notable places within 2 km48688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 17 points.17
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Berlin and Philadelphia are level on 60.
BerlinPhiladelphia
Score6060
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm69 mm to 112 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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A
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasureBerlinPhiladelphia
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation34 m12 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinPhiladelphia
City population3,782,2021,603,797
People per km²4,2444,339
Museums within 10 km15854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8675

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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.