VacationSelector

Berlin or Thessaloniki?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
match

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.

BerlinThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
BerlinThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance142 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 20 points.20
BerlinThessaloniki
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3315
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 30 points.30
BerlinThessaloniki
Score7949
Museums within 10 km20034
Museums within 2 km of centre8122
Share of museums within 2 km %4165
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 9 points.9
BerlinThessaloniki
Score7667
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3457
Nightclubs within 4 km13561
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.16
BerlinThessaloniki
Score4965
Protected land share 50 km %2025
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km141 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 35 points.35
BerlinThessaloniki
Score7641
Tourist attractions within 2 km5416
Park area within 2 km141 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 28 points.28
BerlinThessaloniki
Score8456
Notable places within 2 km48698
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 14 points.14
BerlinThessaloniki
Score6074
Price level global75.955.8
Daily budget€163€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
BerlinThessaloniki
Score6072
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months39
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Thessaloniki
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
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinThessaloniki
AthensATH
2 h 45 m
€200
BER · 19 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureBerlinThessaloniki
Official languageGermanGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m6 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinThessaloniki
City population3,782,202309,617
People per km²4,24416,042
Museums within 10 km15831
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8645
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.