VacationSelector

Bologna or Hong Kong?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BolognaHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
BolognaHong Kong
Score087
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km265
Coast distance74 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 30 points.30
BolognaHong Kong
Score5888
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8224,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2032
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 31 points.31
BolognaHong Kong
Score6736
Museums within 10 km5850
Museums within 2 km of centre4317
Share of museums within 2 km %7434
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 18 points.18
BolognaHong Kong
Score5371
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5311,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7459
Nightclubs within 4 km3037
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 25 points.25
BolognaHong Kong
Score3964
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10029
Park area within 2 km119 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
BolognaHong Kong
Score5558
Tourist attractions within 2 km3227
Park area within 2 km119 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
BolognaHong Kong
Score6069
Notable places within 2 km120204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 5 points.5
BolognaHong Kong
Score6863
Price level global64.972
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 7 points.7
BolognaHong Kong
Score6774
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm23 mm to 493 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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
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). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaHong Kong
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureBolognaHong Kong
Official languageItalianStandard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation54 m7 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaHong Kong
City population387,9717,413,070
People per km²2,754
Museums within 10 km6639
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6276
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.