VacationSelector

Berlin or Rotterdam?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
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.

BerlinRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
BerlinRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1722
Coast distance142 km24 km
Water distance—24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 2 points.2
BerlinRotterdam
Score7072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3346
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BerlinRotterdam
Score7960
Museums within 10 km20041
Museums within 2 km of centre8120
Share of museums within 2 km %4149
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 27 points.27
BerlinRotterdam
Score7649
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3470
Nightclubs within 4 km13540
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 7 points.7
BerlinRotterdam
Score4942
Protected land share 50 km %2010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km141 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 14 points.14
BerlinRotterdam
Score7662
Tourist attractions within 2 km5427
Park area within 2 km141 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km58
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 33 points.33
BerlinRotterdam
Score8451
Notable places within 2 km48674
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 2 points.2
BerlinRotterdam
Score6058
Price level global75.979.2
Daily budget€163€181
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinRotterdam
Score6056
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 5 m
€57-77
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 55 m
€128-224
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 40 m
€83-100
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureBerlinRotterdam
Official languageGermanDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation34 m10 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinRotterdam
City population3,782,202664,311
People per km²4,2442,080
Museums within 10 km15840
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8677
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.