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Budapest or Strasbourg?

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.

Strasbourg
47
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.

BudapestStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Strasbourg are level on 0.
BudapestStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km69
Coast distance10,000 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestStrasbourg
Score7767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3536
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 23 points.23
BudapestStrasbourg
Score6441
Museums within 10 km14423
Museums within 2 km of centre6414
Share of museums within 2 km %4461
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 36 points.36
BudapestStrasbourg
Score7236
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6687
Nightclubs within 4 km9717
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 14 points.14
BudapestStrasbourg
Score4054
Protected land share 50 km %837
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 33 points.33
BudapestStrasbourg
Score7138
Tourist attractions within 2 km759
Park area within 2 km111 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 11 points.11
BudapestStrasbourg
Score6958
Notable places within 2 km206109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
BudapestStrasbourg
Score8062
Price level global4873.7
Daily budget€104€160
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 1 points.1
BudapestStrasbourg
Score6463
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestStrasbourg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
NiceNCE
1 h 50 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureBudapestStrasbourg
Official languageHungarianFrench
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m132 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestStrasbourg
City population1,685,209293,771
People per km²3,2093,752
Museums within 10 km8121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8687

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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.