VacationSelector

Bologna or Cordoba?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on good for families 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.

BolognaCordoba
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Cordoba are level on 0.
BolognaCordoba
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance74 km134 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 11 points.11
BolognaCordoba
Score5847
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822616
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2013
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 20 points.20
BolognaCordoba
Score6747
Museums within 10 km5820
Museums within 2 km of centre4319
Share of museums within 2 km %7495
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 10 points.10
BolognaCordoba
Score5343
Drinking venues within 4 km720444
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7480
Nightclubs within 4 km3014
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 2 points.2
BolognaCordoba
Score3937
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares108 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 8 points.8
BolognaCordoba
Score5563
Tourist attractions within 2 km3259
Park area within 2 km119 hectares108 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 16 points.16
BolognaCordoba
Score6044
Notable places within 2 km12048
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cordoba leads by 3 points.3
BolognaCordoba
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Cordoba leads by 5 points.5
BolognaCordoba
Score6772
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C15.1 °C to 37.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm1 mm to 91 mm
Dry months54
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaCordoba
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 0 m
€39-68
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 111 km
CasablancaCMN
3 h 5 m
€180-238
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 137 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

MeasureBolognaCordoba
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m120 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaCordoba
City population387,971323,262
People per km²2,754258
Museums within 10 km6616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6227

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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.