VacationSelector

Cadiz or Lucerne?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CadizLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 70 points.70
CadizLucerne
Score700
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2916
Coast distance0 km669 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Lucerne leads by 3 points.3
CadizLucerne
Score4447
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1825
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 4 points.4
CadizLucerne
Score3640
Museums within 10 km2323
Museums within 2 km of centre1613
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Cadiz leads by 2 points.2
CadizLucerne
Score3028
Drinking venues within 4 km241202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7375
Nightclubs within 4 km611
Nature & day trips. Cadiz leads by 1 points.1
CadizLucerne
Score2625
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 16 points.16
CadizLucerne
Score5438
Tourist attractions within 2 km8015
Park area within 2 km24 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Lucerne leads by 4 points.4
CadizLucerne
Score3135
Notable places within 2 km2329
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 36 points.36
CadizLucerne
Score7135
Price level global60.8110.5
Daily budget€122€248
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 30 points.30
CadizLucerne
Score8353
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizLucerne
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 49 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 85 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 85 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

MeasureCadizLucerne
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m436 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizLucerne
City population109,95086,234
People per km²9,0872,963
Museums within 10 km1114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2846
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.