VacationSelector

Cologne or Innsbruck?

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 nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Innsbruck
44
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.

CologneInnsbruck
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Innsbruck are level on 0.
CologneInnsbruck
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4010
Coast distance256 km217 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 26 points.26
CologneInnsbruck
Score7246
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142270
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3524
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 12 points.12
CologneInnsbruck
Score6048
Museums within 10 km4734
Museums within 2 km of centre2721
Share of museums within 2 km %5762
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 30 points.30
CologneInnsbruck
Score6434
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107271
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6680
Nightclubs within 4 km9016
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 11 points.11
CologneInnsbruck
Score7160
Protected land share 50 km %5331
Landscape blanket share 50 km %528
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares38 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 27 points.27
CologneInnsbruck
Score7245
Tourist attractions within 2 km4318
Park area within 2 km118 hectares38 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 8 points.8
CologneInnsbruck
Score5345
Notable places within 2 km8153
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cologne leads by 1 points.1
CologneInnsbruck
Score6059
Price level global75.976.9
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Cologne leads by 1 points.1
CologneInnsbruck
Score6059
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C3.9 °C to 25.6 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm40 mm to 144 mm
Dry months01
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
Innsbruck
4
7
12
16
21
24
26
25
21
16
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Innsbruck
50
40
59
60
90
119
129
144
89
70
63
59
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Innsbruck
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
Innsbruck
3
4
6
6
7
7
8
7
6
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneInnsbruck
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
3 h 0 m
€207-225
MUC · 124 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 124 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
INN · 4 km
SofiaSOF
2 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 5 m
€48-68
FMM · 118 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 50 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
FMM · 118 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 124 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

MeasureCologneInnsbruck
Official languageGermanGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m574 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneInnsbruck
City population1,024,621132,499
People per km²2,5301,263
Museums within 10 km4027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8447

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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.