VacationSelector

Cape Town or Stuttgart?

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.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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 TownStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Cape Town leads by 60 points.60
Cape TownStuttgart
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km293
Coast distance1 km476 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Cape Town leads by 8 points.8
Cape TownStuttgart
Score6759
Restaurants within 2 km of centre650575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4229
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 2 points.2
Cape TownStuttgart
Score5456
Museums within 10 km2565
Museums within 2 km of centre2021
Share of museums within 2 km %8032
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 2 points.2
Cape TownStuttgart
Score4749
Drinking venues within 4 km483524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre389374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8171
Nightclubs within 4 km4753
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 44 points.44
Cape TownStuttgart
Score3680
Protected land share 50 km %651
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 9 points.9
Cape TownStuttgart
Score3645
Tourist attractions within 2 km1911
Park area within 2 km27 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Cape Town leads by 1 points.1
Cape TownStuttgart
Score4544
Notable places within 2 km5150
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cape Town leads by 25 points.25
Cape TownStuttgart
Score8560
Price level global40.575.9
Daily budget—€163
Year-round weather. Cape Town leads by 23 points.23
Cape TownStuttgart
Score8663
Monthly daytime high18 °C to 27.5 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall10 mm to 97 mm33 mm to 79 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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cape Town
18
18
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
16
17
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cape Town
10
11
13
42
65
97
89
76
47
32
27
13
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Cape Town
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Stuttgart
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
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCape TownStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 35 m
€717-799
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 5 m
€634-815
CPT · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 0 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
JohannesburgJNB, HLA
2 h 10 m
€162-179
CPT · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
8 h 10 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 45 m
€632-724
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 10 km
WindhoekWDH, ERS
2 h 10 m
€306-378
CPT · 18 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
55 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
16 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 10 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

MeasureCape TownStuttgart
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageGerman
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation5 m245 m
Main airportCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre44 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCape TownStuttgart
City population3,776,313633,484
People per km²1,5383,054
Museums within 10 km2242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre6559
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.