Berlin or Rome?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.
Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 33 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 5 |
| Beaches 10 km | 17 | 3 |
| Coast distance | 142 km | 24 km |
| Water distance | — | 24 km |
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 10 points.10
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 70 | 60 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 1,117 | 2,241 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 33 | 10 |
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 5 points.5
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 79 | 84 |
| Museums within 10 km | 200 | 161 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 81 | 79 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 41 | 49 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 4 | 7 |
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 2 points.2
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 76 | 74 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 2,114 | 2,022 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 719 | 912 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 34 | 45 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 135 | 85 |
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 21 points.21
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 49 | 70 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 20 | 19 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 16 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 78 |
| Park area within 2 km | 141 hectares | 172 hectares |
Good for families. Rome leads by 10 points.10
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 76 | 86 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 54 | 126 |
| Park area within 2 km | 141 hectares | 172 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 5 | 4 |
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 15 points.15
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 84 | 99 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 486 | 1,125 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Rome leads by 8 points.8
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 60 | 68 |
| Price level global | 75.9 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €163 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 11 points.11
| Berlin | Rome | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 60 | 71 |
| Monthly daytime high | 3.7 °C to 25 °C | 12 °C to 31.4 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 29 mm to 76 mm | 21 mm to 114 mm |
| Dry months | 3 | 3 |
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | Berlin | Rome |
|---|---|---|
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 50 m €65-126 BER · 19 km | 2 h 20 m €76-143 1 stop FCO · 23 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 1 h 40 m €102-136 BER · 19 km | 2 h 0 m €91-122 FCO · 23 km |
| IstanbulIST, SAW | 2 h 40 m €133-143 BER · 19 km | 2 h 15 m €136-291 FCO · 23 km |
| MadridMAD | 2 h 50 m €158-204 1 stop BER · 19 km | 2 h 15 m €98-119 FCO · 23 km |
| BarcelonaBCN | 2 h 25 m €101-133 BER · 19 km | 1 h 40 m €44-74 FCO · 23 km |
| FrankfurtFRA, HHN | 1 h 10 m €137-154 BER · 19 km | 1 h 50 m €96-147 FCO · 23 km |
| MunichMUC | 1 h 15 m €178-321 BER · 19 km | 1 h 30 m €145-191 FCO · 23 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 10 m €737 BER · 19 km | 8 h 45 m €446-597 FCO · 23 km |
| HurghadaHRG | 4 h 30 m no fares BER · 19 km | 3 h 40 m no fares FCO · 23 km |
| BeijingPEK, PKX | 9 h 20 m €718-820 2 stops BER · 19 km | 10 h 15 m no fares FCO · 23 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
| Measure | Berlin | Rome |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | German | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CF230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 34 m | 21 m |
| Main airport | Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinations | Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 10 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Berlin | Rome |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 3,782,202 | 2,748,109 |
| People per km² | 4,244 | 2,135 |
| Museums within 10 km | 158 | 177 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 4 | 7 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 86 | 65 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | – | 5 months |
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