VacationSelector

Cardiff or Hong Kong?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

CardiffHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 41 points.41
CardiffHong Kong
Score4687
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km865
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 28 points.28
CardiffHong Kong
Score6088
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5414,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3232
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 3 points.3
CardiffHong Kong
Score3936
Museums within 10 km6150
Museums within 2 km of centre617
Share of museums within 2 km %1034
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 23 points.23
CardiffHong Kong
Score4871
Drinking venues within 4 km5361,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3951,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7459
Nightclubs within 4 km3537
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
CardiffHong Kong
Score5064
Protected land share 50 km %188
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6829
Park area within 2 km88 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 26 points.26
CardiffHong Kong
Score3258
Tourist attractions within 2 km427
Park area within 2 km88 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 24 points.24
CardiffHong Kong
Score4569
Notable places within 2 km51204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 9 points.9
CardiffHong Kong
Score5463
Price level global84.972
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
CardiffHong Kong
Score5474
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months04
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffHong Kong
New DelhiDEL
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
5 h 5 m
€315-417
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCardiffHong Kong
Official languageEnglishStandard Chinese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112 or 999999
Elevation41 m7 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffHong Kong
City population383,5367,413,070
People per km²2,734
Museums within 10 km939
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5576
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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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. 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.