VacationSelector

Berlin or Venice?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BerlinVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
BerlinVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1720
Coast distance142 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 25 points.25
BerlinVenice
Score7045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3310
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 7 points.7
BerlinVenice
Score7972
Museums within 10 km20057
Museums within 2 km of centre8145
Share of museums within 2 km %4179
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 41 points.41
BerlinVenice
Score7635
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3489
Nightclubs within 4 km1353
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 32 points.32
BerlinVenice
Score4917
Protected land share 50 km %204
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km141 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BerlinVenice
Score7657
Tourist attractions within 2 km5472
Park area within 2 km141 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 1 points.1
BerlinVenice
Score8483
Notable places within 2 km486464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 8 points.8
BerlinVenice
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 6 points.6
BerlinVenice
Score6066
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months32
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureBerlinVenice
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m2 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinVenice
City population3,782,202250,369
People per km²4,244602
Museums within 10 km15852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8646
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.