VacationSelector

Budapest or Valencia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Budapest
60
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BudapestValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
BudapestValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km612
Coast distance10,000 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 1 points.1
BudapestValencia
Score7778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6991,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3533
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BudapestValencia
Score6455
Museums within 10 km14459
Museums within 2 km of centre6426
Share of museums within 2 km %4444
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 2 points.2
BudapestValencia
Score7270
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7651,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6663
Nightclubs within 4 km97108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 13 points.13
BudapestValencia
Score4053
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km111 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
BudapestValencia
Score7142
Tourist attractions within 2 km7512
Park area within 2 km111 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 17 points.17
BudapestValencia
Score6952
Notable places within 2 km20678
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 9 points.9
BudapestValencia
Score8071
Price level global4860.8
Daily budget€104€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
BudapestValencia
Score6484
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months58
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 0 m
€58-94
BUD · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 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

MeasureBudapestValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestValencia
City population1,685,209840,792
People per km²3,2096,242
Museums within 10 km8146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8692
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.