VacationSelector

Chicago or Stuttgart?

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

Your match

Chicago
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

ChicagoStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Chicago leads by 53 points.53
ChicagoStuttgart
Score530
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km123
Coast distance10,000 km476 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 22 points.22
ChicagoStuttgart
Score8159
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3729
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 10 points.10
ChicagoStuttgart
Score4656
Museums within 10 km4565
Museums within 2 km of centre2021
Share of museums within 2 km %4432
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 13 points.13
ChicagoStuttgart
Score6249
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km5153
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 42 points.42
ChicagoStuttgart
Score3880
Protected land share 50 km %651
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 10 points.10
ChicagoStuttgart
Score5545
Tourist attractions within 2 km1811
Park area within 2 km118 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 26 points.26
ChicagoStuttgart
Score7044
Notable places within 2 km21750
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 17 points.17
ChicagoStuttgart
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 6 points.6
ChicagoStuttgart
Score5763
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 mm33 mm to 79 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€141-200
ORD · 25 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 10 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
Abu DhabiAUH
14 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 146 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

MeasureChicagoStuttgart
Official languageGerman
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m245 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoStuttgart
City population2,746,388633,484
People per km²4,5293,054
Museums within 10 km4342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8759
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.