VacationSelector

Budapest or Interlaken?

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 nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
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.

BudapestInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Interlaken are level on 0.
BudapestInterlaken
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km612
Coast distance10,000 km713 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 48 points.48
BudapestInterlaken
Score7729
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3517
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 41 points.41
BudapestInterlaken
Score6423
Museums within 10 km1445
Museums within 2 km of centre642
Share of museums within 2 km %4440
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 68 points.68
BudapestInterlaken
Score724
Drinking venues within 4 km1,76542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,16838
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6690
Nightclubs within 4 km973
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 13 points.13
BudapestInterlaken
Score4027
Protected land share 50 km %819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 57 points.57
BudapestInterlaken
Score7114
Tourist attractions within 2 km7511
Park area within 2 km111 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 47 points.47
BudapestInterlaken
Score6922
Notable places within 2 km20614
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 45 points.45
BudapestInterlaken
Score8035
Price level global48110.5
Daily budget€104€248
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 7 points.7
BudapestInterlaken
Score6457
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months53
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Interlaken
No sunshine record

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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
BerlinBER
1 h 30 m
€53-90
BUD · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureBudapestInterlaken
Official languageHungarianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyForint (HUF)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m571 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestInterlaken
City population1,685,2096,123
People per km²3,2091,424
Museums within 10 km813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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.