VacationSelector

Como or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

ComoRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
ComoRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km822
Coast distance156 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 47 points.47
ComoRotterdam
Score2572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre259862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km746
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 14 points.14
ComoRotterdam
Score4660
Museums within 10 km941
Museums within 2 km of centre620
Share of museums within 2 km %6749
Unesco sites within 50 km85
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 25 points.25
ComoRotterdam
Score2449
Drinking venues within 4 km213542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6770
Nightclubs within 4 km140
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 2 points.2
ComoRotterdam
Score4042
Protected land share 50 km %2310
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km15 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 47 points.47
ComoRotterdam
Score1562
Tourist attractions within 2 km627
Park area within 2 km15 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 21 points.21
ComoRotterdam
Score3051
Notable places within 2 km2274
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 10 points.10
ComoRotterdam
Score6858
Price level global64.979.2
Daily budget€155€181
Year-round weather. Como leads by 2 points.2
ComoRotterdam
Score5856
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 34 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 34 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 20 m
no fares
BGY · 51 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
BGY · 51 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 34 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureComoRotterdam
Official languageItalianDutch
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 or 911
Elevation201 m10 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoRotterdam
City population83,184664,311
People per km²2,2422,080
Museums within 10 km940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km85
Distinct cuisines in the centre2277
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.