VacationSelector

Budapest or Hamburg?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Hamburg
53
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.

BudapestHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Hamburg are level on 0.
BudapestHamburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km616
Coast distance10,000 km22 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 4 points.4
BudapestHamburg
Score7773
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6991,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3538
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 4 points.4
BudapestHamburg
Score6460
Museums within 10 km14494
Museums within 2 km of centre6450
Share of museums within 2 km %4453
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 4 points.4
BudapestHamburg
Score7268
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7651,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6662
Nightclubs within 4 km97119
Nature & day trips. Budapest and Hamburg are level on 40.
BudapestHamburg
Score4040
Protected land share 50 km %814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km111 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 11 points.11
BudapestHamburg
Score7160
Tourist attractions within 2 km7540
Park area within 2 km111 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestHamburg
Score6959
Notable places within 2 km206118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 20 points.20
BudapestHamburg
Score8060
Price level global4875.9
Daily budget€104€163
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BudapestHamburg
Score6455
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestHamburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€166-184
BUD · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€96-167
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€127-153
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestHamburg
Official languageHungarianGerman
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 m6 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestHamburg
City population1,685,2091,910,160
People per km²3,2092,530
Museums within 10 km8177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8683

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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.