VacationSelector

Budapest or Philadelphia?

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.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

BudapestPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Philadelphia are level on 0.
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km61
Coast distance10,000 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest and Philadelphia are level on 77.
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score7777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6991,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3535
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 4 points.4
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score6460
Museums within 10 km14489
Museums within 2 km of centre6448
Share of museums within 2 km %4454
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 13 points.13
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score7259
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6662
Nightclubs within 4 km9741
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 9 points.9
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score4049
Protected land share 50 km %814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km111 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score7153
Tourist attractions within 2 km7516
Park area within 2 km111 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 15 points.15
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 37 points.37
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score8043
Price level global48100
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 4 points.4
BudapestPhiladelphia
Score6460
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm69 mm to 112 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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Daytime high, °C
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 140 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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

MeasureBudapestPhiladelphia
Official languageHungarian
CurrencyForint (HUF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation117 m12 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestPhiladelphia
City population1,685,2091,603,797
People per km²3,2094,339
Museums within 10 km8154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8675

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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.