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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
Neues Schloss with magnolias in bloom, Stuttgart
StuttgartNeues Schloss with magnolias in bloom

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Stuttgart by Baden de, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Cardiff or Stuttgart?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cardiff for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’s own page.

Choose Stuttgart for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Stuttgart’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cardiff 30, Stuttgart 8: Cardiff leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Stuttgart 62: Stuttgart leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Stuttgart 42: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Stuttgart 60: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Stuttgart 80: Stuttgart leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Stuttgart 66: Stuttgart leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Stuttgart 72: Stuttgart leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Stuttgart 40: Cardiff leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Stuttgart 74: Stuttgart leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Stuttgart 64: Stuttgart leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Stuttgart.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Cardiff
52match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Stuttgart
Best match
57match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Stuttgart in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
79 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cardiff has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffStuttgart
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m245 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffStuttgart
City population383,536609,365
People per km²2,7342,938
Museums within 10 km942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.