VacationSelector

Cologne or Granada?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Granada
53
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.

CologneGranada
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Granada are level on 0.
CologneGranada
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km400
Coast distance256 km48 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 5 points.5
CologneGranada
Score7267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 12 points.12
CologneGranada
Score6048
Museums within 10 km4728
Museums within 2 km of centre2726
Share of museums within 2 km %5793
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 12 points.12
CologneGranada
Score6452
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6678
Nightclubs within 4 km9046
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 8 points.8
CologneGranada
Score7163
Protected land share 50 km %5327
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %10096
Park area within 2 km118 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 16 points.16
CologneGranada
Score7256
Tourist attractions within 2 km4360
Park area within 2 km118 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 9 points.9
CologneGranada
Score5344
Notable places within 2 km8150
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 11 points.11
CologneGranada
Score6071
Price level global75.960.8
Daily budget€163€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 14 points.14
CologneGranada
Score6074
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months07
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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
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). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€81-121
CGN · 15 km
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
AmsterdamAMS
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCologneGranada
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 m693 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneGranada
City population1,024,621233,975
People per km²2,5302,659
Museums within 10 km4019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8462

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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.