VacationSelector

Berlin or Strasbourg?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BerlinStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Strasbourg are level on 0.
BerlinStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km179
Coast distance142 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 3 points.3
BerlinStrasbourg
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3336
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 38 points.38
BerlinStrasbourg
Score7941
Museums within 10 km20023
Museums within 2 km of centre8114
Share of museums within 2 km %4161
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 40 points.40
BerlinStrasbourg
Score7636
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3487
Nightclubs within 4 km13517
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
BerlinStrasbourg
Score4954
Protected land share 50 km %2037
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1635
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 38 points.38
BerlinStrasbourg
Score7638
Tourist attractions within 2 km549
Park area within 2 km141 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 26 points.26
BerlinStrasbourg
Score8458
Notable places within 2 km486109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
BerlinStrasbourg
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 3 points.3
BerlinStrasbourg
Score6063
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinStrasbourg
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 15 m
€145-185
BER · 19 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
NiceNCE
1 h 55 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
55 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 109 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

MeasureBerlinStrasbourg
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 m132 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinStrasbourg
City population3,782,202293,771
People per km²4,2443,752
Museums within 10 km15821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8687

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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.