VacationSelector

Budapest or York?

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 sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

York
41
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.

BudapestYork
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and York are level on 0.
BudapestYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km62
Coast distance10,000 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 23 points.23
BudapestYork
Score7754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
BudapestYork
Score6446
Museums within 10 km14418
Museums within 2 km of centre6416
Share of museums within 2 km %4489
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
BudapestYork
Score7243
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6678
Nightclubs within 4 km9714
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 7 points.7
BudapestYork
Score4033
Protected land share 50 km %817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km111 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 28 points.28
BudapestYork
Score7143
Tourist attractions within 2 km7513
Park area within 2 km111 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 30 points.30
BudapestYork
Score6939
Notable places within 2 km20637
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 26 points.26
BudapestYork
Score8054
Price level global4884.9
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 8 points.8
BudapestYork
Score6456
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
York
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
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 20 m
€43-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureBudapestYork
Official languageHungarianEnglish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation117 m25 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestYork
City population1,685,209208,400
People per km²3,209766
Museums within 10 km8124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8654

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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.