VacationSelector

Como or Madrid?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

ComoMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Como and Madrid are level on 0.
ComoMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km84
Coast distance156 km305 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 58 points.58
ComoMadrid
Score2583
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2593,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km728
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 29 points.29
ComoMadrid
Score4675
Museums within 10 km997
Museums within 2 km of centre659
Share of museums within 2 km %6761
Unesco sites within 50 km84
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 57 points.57
ComoMadrid
Score2481
Drinking venues within 4 km2132,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1431,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6762
Nightclubs within 4 km1341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 23 points.23
ComoMadrid
Score4063
Protected land share 50 km %2319
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km15 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 62 points.62
ComoMadrid
Score1577
Tourist attractions within 2 km661
Park area within 2 km15 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 45 points.45
ComoMadrid
Score3075
Notable places within 2 km22288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 3 points.3
ComoMadrid
Score6871
Price level global64.960.8
Daily budget€155€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 14 points.14
ComoMadrid
Score5872
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm9 mm to 64 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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Daytime high, °C
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoMadrid
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 34 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 43 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 34 km
10 h 30 m
€636-955
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 14 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

MeasureComoMadrid
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation201 m663 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoMadrid
City population83,1843,506,730
People per km²2,2425,801
Museums within 10 km988
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km84
Distinct cuisines in the centre22106

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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.