VacationSelector

Bologna or Hamburg?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bologna
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

BolognaHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Hamburg are level on 0.
BolognaHamburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km216
Coast distance74 km22 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 15 points.15
BolognaHamburg
Score5873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2038
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaHamburg
Score6760
Museums within 10 km5894
Museums within 2 km of centre4350
Share of museums within 2 km %7453
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 15 points.15
BolognaHamburg
Score5368
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7462
Nightclubs within 4 km30119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 1 points.1
BolognaHamburg
Score3940
Protected land share 50 km %714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km119 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 5 points.5
BolognaHamburg
Score5560
Tourist attractions within 2 km3240
Park area within 2 km119 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 1 points.1
BolognaHamburg
Score6059
Notable places within 2 km120118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 8 points.8
BolognaHamburg
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 12 points.12
BolognaHamburg
Score6755
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm39 mm to 82 mm
Dry months51
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1

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). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaHamburg
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
€85-160
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaHamburg
Official languageItalianGerman
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 m6 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaHamburg
City population387,9711,910,160
People per km²2,7542,530
Museums within 10 km6677
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6283

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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.