VacationSelector

Cadiz or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Cadiz
49
match

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

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

CadizRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 33 points.33
CadizRotterdam
Score7037
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2922
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 28 points.28
CadizRotterdam
Score4472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1846
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 24 points.24
CadizRotterdam
Score3660
Museums within 10 km2341
Museums within 2 km of centre1620
Share of museums within 2 km %7049
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 19 points.19
CadizRotterdam
Score3049
Drinking venues within 4 km241542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7370
Nightclubs within 4 km640
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 16 points.16
CadizRotterdam
Score2642
Protected land share 50 km %410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4579
Park area within 2 km24 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 8 points.8
CadizRotterdam
Score5462
Tourist attractions within 2 km8027
Park area within 2 km24 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 20 points.20
CadizRotterdam
Score3151
Notable places within 2 km2374
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 13 points.13
CadizRotterdam
Score7158
Price level global60.879.2
Daily budget€122€181
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 27 points.27
CadizRotterdam
Score8356
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizRotterdam
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 45 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 20 m
€181-218
RTM · 5 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 5 m
€198-297
RTM · 5 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCadizRotterdam
Official languageSpanishDutch
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 or 911
Elevation11 m10 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizRotterdam
City population109,950664,311
People per km²9,0872,080
Museums within 10 km1140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2877
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.