VacationSelector

Cape Town or Como?

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

Your match

Cape Town
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Como
34
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

Cape TownComo
Beaches & swimming. Cape Town leads by 60 points.60
Cape TownComo
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km298
Coast distance1 km156 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Cape Town leads by 42 points.42
Cape TownComo
Score6725
Restaurants within 2 km of centre650259
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km427
Museums & heritage. Cape Town leads by 8 points.8
Cape TownComo
Score5446
Museums within 10 km259
Museums within 2 km of centre206
Share of museums within 2 km %8067
Unesco sites within 50 km38
Nightlife. Cape Town leads by 23 points.23
Cape TownComo
Score4724
Drinking venues within 4 km483213
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre389143
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8167
Nightclubs within 4 km471
Nature & day trips. Como leads by 4 points.4
Cape TownComo
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %623
Landscape blanket share 50 km %05
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Cape Town leads by 21 points.21
Cape TownComo
Score3615
Tourist attractions within 2 km196
Park area within 2 km27 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Cape Town leads by 15 points.15
Cape TownComo
Score4530
Notable places within 2 km5122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cape Town leads by 17 points.17
Cape TownComo
Score8568
Price level global40.564.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Cape Town leads by 28 points.28
Cape TownComo
Score8658
Monthly daytime high18 °C to 27.5 °C7.1 °C to 27.3 °C
Monthly rainfall10 mm to 97 mm61 mm to 178 mm
Dry months60
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
Cape Town
27
28
26
24
21
18
18
18
20
22
24
26
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Cape Town
18
18
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
16
17
Como
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cape Town
10
11
13
42
65
97
89
76
47
32
27
13
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Daylight, hours per day
Cape Town
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cape Town
12
10
9
8
6
6
6
7
8
9
10
11
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre). Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCape TownComo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 5 m
€634-815
CPT · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 40 m
€742-801
2 stops
CPT · 18 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 45 m
€632-724
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 43 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 35 m
€717-799
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 34 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 43 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 40 m
€611-615
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 34 km
DohaDOH
9 h 25 m
€850-932
2 stops
CPT · 18 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 10 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 34 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 0 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 34 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

MeasureCape TownComo
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageItalian
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation5 m201 m
Main airportCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre44 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCape TownComo
City population3,776,31383,184
People per km²1,5382,242
Museums within 10 km229
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km38
Distinct cuisines in the centre6522
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.