VacationSelector

Cardiff or Interlaken?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

CardiffInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffInterlaken
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km812
Coast distance2 km713 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 31 points.31
CardiffInterlaken
Score6029
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3217
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 16 points.16
CardiffInterlaken
Score3923
Museums within 10 km615
Museums within 2 km of centre62
Share of museums within 2 km %1040
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Cardiff leads by 44 points.44
CardiffInterlaken
Score484
Drinking venues within 4 km53642
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre39538
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7490
Nightclubs within 4 km353
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 23 points.23
CardiffInterlaken
Score5027
Protected land share 50 km %1819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Cardiff leads by 18 points.18
CardiffInterlaken
Score3214
Tourist attractions within 2 km411
Park area within 2 km88 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Cardiff leads by 23 points.23
CardiffInterlaken
Score4522
Notable places within 2 km5114
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cardiff leads by 19 points.19
CardiffInterlaken
Score5435
Price level global84.9110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 3 points.3
CardiffInterlaken
Score5457
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months03
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Interlaken
No sunshine record

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). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffInterlaken
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
BerlinBER
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCardiffInterlaken
Official languageEnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m571 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffInterlaken
City population383,5366,123
People per km²2,7341,424
Museums within 10 km93
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5522
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.