VacationSelector

Cologne or Cordoba?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

CologneCordoba
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Cordoba are level on 0.
CologneCordoba
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km400
Coast distance256 km134 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 25 points.25
CologneCordoba
Score7247
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142616
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3513
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 13 points.13
CologneCordoba
Score6047
Museums within 10 km4720
Museums within 2 km of centre2719
Share of museums within 2 km %5795
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 21 points.21
CologneCordoba
Score6443
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107444
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6680
Nightclubs within 4 km9014
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 34 points.34
CologneCordoba
Score7137
Protected land share 50 km %536
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares108 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 9 points.9
CologneCordoba
Score7263
Tourist attractions within 2 km4359
Park area within 2 km118 hectares108 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 9 points.9
CologneCordoba
Score5344
Notable places within 2 km8148
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cordoba leads by 11 points.11
CologneCordoba
Score6071
Price level global75.960.8
Daily budget€163€122
Year-round weather. Cordoba leads by 12 points.12
CologneCordoba
Score6072
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C15.1 °C to 37.1 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm1 mm to 91 mm
Dry months04
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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneCordoba
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 137 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 111 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 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

MeasureCologneCordoba
Official languageGermanSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m120 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneCordoba
City population1,024,621323,262
People per km²2,530258
Museums within 10 km4016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre8427

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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. 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.