VacationSelector

Cape Town or Strasbourg?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

Cape TownStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Cape Town leads by 60 points.60
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km299
Coast distance1 km398 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Cape Town and Strasbourg are level on 67.
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score6767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre650780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4236
Museums & heritage. Cape Town leads by 13 points.13
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score5441
Museums within 10 km2523
Museums within 2 km of centre2014
Share of museums within 2 km %8061
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Cape Town leads by 11 points.11
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score4736
Drinking venues within 4 km483305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre389264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8187
Nightclubs within 4 km4717
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 18 points.18
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score3654
Protected land share 50 km %637
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score3638
Tourist attractions within 2 km199
Park area within 2 km27 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 13 points.13
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score4558
Notable places within 2 km51109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cape Town leads by 23 points.23
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score8562
Price level global40.573.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Cape Town leads by 23 points.23
Cape TownStrasbourg
Score8663
Monthly daytime high18 °C to 27.5 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall10 mm to 97 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months63
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cape Town
18
18
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
16
17
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cape Town
10
11
13
42
65
97
89
76
47
32
27
13
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Cape Town
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cape Town
12
10
9
8
6
6
6
7
8
9
10
11
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCape TownStrasbourg
JohannesburgJNB, HLA
2 h 10 m
€162-179
CPT · 18 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 10 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 5 m
€634-815
CPT · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
WindhoekWDH, ERS
2 h 10 m
€306-378
CPT · 18 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
16 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 45 m
€632-724
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 35 m
€717-799
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 0 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
55 m
no fares
STR · 109 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 TownStrasbourg
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageFrench
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation5 m132 m
Main airportCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre44 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCape TownStrasbourg
City population3,776,313293,771
People per km²1,5383,752
Museums within 10 km2221
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6587
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.