VacationSelector

Cologne or Verona?

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.

Verona
48
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

CologneVerona
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Verona are level on 0.
CologneVerona
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km402
Coast distance256 km104 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 29 points.29
CologneVerona
Score7243
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3513
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 4 points.4
CologneVerona
Score6056
Museums within 10 km4720
Museums within 2 km of centre2719
Share of museums within 2 km %5795
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 24 points.24
CologneVerona
Score6440
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6665
Nightclubs within 4 km909
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 35 points.35
CologneVerona
Score7136
Protected land share 50 km %539
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 3 points.3
CologneVerona
Score7269
Tourist attractions within 2 km4362
Park area within 2 km118 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km64
Sights concentration. Cologne and Verona are level on 53.
CologneVerona
Score5353
Notable places within 2 km8182
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Verona leads by 8 points.8
CologneVerona
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 5 points.5
CologneVerona
Score6065
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm38 mm to 85 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
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
4
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneVerona
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
2 h 25 m
€172-262
1 stop
VRN · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 40 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 25 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€136-255
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
€99-129
VCE · 106 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€174-186
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 45 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
VRN · 10 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

MeasureCologneVerona
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m59 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneVerona
City population1,024,621255,588
People per km²2,5301,285
Museums within 10 km4018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre8435

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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.