VacationSelector

Catania or Interlaken?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CataniaInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaInterlaken
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km512
Coast distance1 km713 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Catania leads by 20 points.20
CataniaInterlaken
Score4929
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1417
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 36 points.36
CataniaInterlaken
Score5923
Museums within 10 km345
Museums within 2 km of centre272
Share of museums within 2 km %7940
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Catania leads by 43 points.43
CataniaInterlaken
Score474
Drinking venues within 4 km53742
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre40338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7590
Nightclubs within 4 km183
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 4 points.4
CataniaInterlaken
Score3127
Protected land share 50 km %1019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km11 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 22 points.22
CataniaInterlaken
Score3614
Tourist attractions within 2 km2511
Park area within 2 km11 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Catania leads by 17 points.17
CataniaInterlaken
Score3922
Notable places within 2 km3714
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 33 points.33
CataniaInterlaken
Score6835
Price level global64.9110.5
Daily budget€155€248
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 20 points.20
CataniaInterlaken
Score7757
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months53
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaInterlaken
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 100 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 40 m
€38-100
CTA · 4 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
BerlinBER
2 h 35 m
€141-178
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 5 m
€115-151
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCataniaInterlaken
Official languageItalianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m571 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaInterlaken
City population311,5846,123
People per km²1,7041,424
Museums within 10 km253
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3022
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.