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Catania or Hamburg?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Catania
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

CataniaHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaHamburg
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km516
Coast distance1 km22 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 24 points.24
CataniaHamburg
Score4973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6371,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1438
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 1 points.1
CataniaHamburg
Score5960
Museums within 10 km3494
Museums within 2 km of centre2750
Share of museums within 2 km %7953
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 21 points.21
CataniaHamburg
Score4768
Drinking venues within 4 km5371,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km18119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 9 points.9
CataniaHamburg
Score3140
Protected land share 50 km %1014
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %6199
Park area within 2 km11 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 24 points.24
CataniaHamburg
Score3660
Tourist attractions within 2 km2540
Park area within 2 km11 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 20 points.20
CataniaHamburg
Score3959
Notable places within 2 km37118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 8 points.8
CataniaHamburg
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 22 points.22
CataniaHamburg
Score7755
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm39 mm to 82 mm
Dry months51
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaHamburg
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
1 h 45 m
€96-167
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€195-231
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 5 m
€115-151
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 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

MeasureCataniaHamburg
Official languageItalianGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaHamburg
City population311,5841,910,160
People per km²1,7042,530
Museums within 10 km2577
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3083
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.