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Budapest or Como?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Como
34
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BudapestComo
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Como are level on 0.
BudapestComo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km68
Coast distance10,000 km156 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 52 points.52
BudapestComo
Score7725
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699259
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km357
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
BudapestComo
Score6446
Museums within 10 km1449
Museums within 2 km of centre646
Share of museums within 2 km %4467
Unesco sites within 50 km18
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 48 points.48
BudapestComo
Score7224
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765213
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168143
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6667
Nightclubs within 4 km971
Nature & day trips. Budapest and Como are level on 40.
BudapestComo
Score4040
Protected land share 50 km %823
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 56 points.56
BudapestComo
Score7115
Tourist attractions within 2 km756
Park area within 2 km111 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 39 points.39
BudapestComo
Score6930
Notable places within 2 km20622
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 12 points.12
BudapestComo
Score8068
Price level global4864.9
Daily budget€104€155
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 6 points.6
BudapestComo
Score6458
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C7.1 °C to 27.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm61 mm to 178 mm
Dry months50
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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F
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A
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestComo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 34 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 43 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 43 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 34 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 34 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestComo
Official languageHungarianItalian
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m201 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestComo
City population1,685,20983,184
People per km²3,2092,242
Museums within 10 km819
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km18
Distinct cuisines in the centre8622

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.