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Cairo or Interlaken?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
Interlaken

Photo: Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Cairo
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Interlaken
41
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CairoInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken leads by 20 points.20
Food & drink. Cairo leads by 35 points.35
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 88 points.88
Nightlife. Cairo leads by 33 points.33
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken leads by 67 points.67
Day trips. Interlaken leads by 12 points.12
Good for families. Interlaken leads by 40 points.40
Getting around. Interlaken leads by 45 points.45
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 36 points.36
Affordability. Cairo leads by 87 points.87
Live music & performing arts. Cairo leads by 35 points.35
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken leads by 25 points.25
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Interlaken.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCairoInterlaken
Daytime high36 °C24 °C
Night-time low23 °C14 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm62 mm
Sunshine12 hours a dayNo figure
Daylight14 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Where the figures come from

Interlaken's rainfall is measured 66 km from the centre, at Sion.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCairoInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
JeddahJED
2 h 5 m
€158-202
CAI · 17 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
Kuwait CityKWI
2 h 35 m
€137-145
CAI · 17 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
BerlinBER
4 h 5 m
€210-279
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
RiyadhRUH
2 h 35 m
€154-163
CAI · 17 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
11 h 15 m
€624-1013
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 30 m
€644-746
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureCairoInterlaken
Official languageArabicFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation23 m571 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoInterlaken
City population9,801,5366,123
People per km²18,5641,424
Museums within 10 km483
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.