VacationSelector

Budapest or Granada?

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 sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Granada
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BudapestGranada
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Granada are level on 0.
BudapestGranada
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance10,000 km48 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestGranada
Score7767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 16 points.16
BudapestGranada
Score6448
Museums within 10 km14428
Museums within 2 km of centre6426
Share of museums within 2 km %4493
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 20 points.20
BudapestGranada
Score7252
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6678
Nightclubs within 4 km9746
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 23 points.23
BudapestGranada
Score4063
Protected land share 50 km %827
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10096
Park area within 2 km111 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 15 points.15
BudapestGranada
Score7156
Tourist attractions within 2 km7560
Park area within 2 km111 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 25 points.25
BudapestGranada
Score6944
Notable places within 2 km20650
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BudapestGranada
Score8071
Price level global4860.8
Daily budget€104€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 10 points.10
BudapestGranada
Score6474
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months57
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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

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). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
DublinDUB
2 h 55 m
€121-132
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€60-87
BUD · 18 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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

MeasureBudapestGranada
Official languageHungarianSpanish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m693 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestGranada
City population1,685,209233,975
People per km²3,2092,659
Museums within 10 km8119
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8662

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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.