VacationSelector

Cadiz or Heidelberg?

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

Your match

Cadiz
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

CadizHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 70 points.70
CadizHeidelberg
Score700
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km296
Coast distance0 km406 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 3 points.3
CadizHeidelberg
Score4447
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1826
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 23 points.23
CadizHeidelberg
Score3659
Museums within 10 km2354
Museums within 2 km of centre1623
Share of museums within 2 km %7043
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Cadiz leads by 3 points.3
CadizHeidelberg
Score3027
Drinking venues within 4 km241201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7384
Nightclubs within 4 km68
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 48 points.48
CadizHeidelberg
Score2674
Protected land share 50 km %452
Landscape blanket share 50 km %022
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 11 points.11
CadizHeidelberg
Score5443
Tourist attractions within 2 km8029
Park area within 2 km24 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Heidelberg leads by 5 points.5
CadizHeidelberg
Score3136
Notable places within 2 km2331
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 11 points.11
CadizHeidelberg
Score7160
Price level global60.875.9
Daily budget€122€163
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 22 points.22
CadizHeidelberg
Score8361
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm45 mm to 80 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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizHeidelberg
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 69 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
HHN · 120 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCadizHeidelberg
Official languageSpanishGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation11 m114 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizHeidelberg
City population109,950162,960
People per km²9,0871,496
Museums within 10 km1117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre2845
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.