VacationSelector

Cordoba or Granada?

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

Your match

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Cordoba if you want the warmer city, with July highs near 37°C, green space within walking distance of the centre, and two UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach.

Choose Granada if eating out matters, with a much wider range of kitchens, if you want more choice after dark, and if you plan days out into protected country, which covers a large share of the land around the city.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CordobaGranada
Beaches & swimming. Cordoba and Granada are level on 0.
CordobaGranada
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km48 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Granada leads by 20 points.20
CordobaGranada
Score4767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre616872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1334
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 1 points.1
CordobaGranada
Score4748
Museums within 10 km2028
Museums within 2 km of centre1926
Share of museums within 2 km %9593
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Granada leads by 9 points.9
CordobaGranada
Score4352
Drinking venues within 4 km444637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre353494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8078
Nightclubs within 4 km1446
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 26 points.26
CordobaGranada
Score3763
Protected land share 50 km %627
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10096
Park area within 2 km108 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 7 points.7
CordobaGranada
Score6356
Tourist attractions within 2 km5960
Park area within 2 km108 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Cordoba and Granada are level on 44.
CordobaGranada
Score4444
Notable places within 2 km4850
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cordoba and Granada are level on 71.
CordobaGranada
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 2 points.2
CordobaGranada
Score7274
Monthly daytime high15.1 °C to 37.1 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 91 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months47
0255075100

Where they differ

Cordoba's strengths are closer to hand: about twice as much park space near the centre as Granada, and 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Granada's 1. The two have about as many attractions near the centre, so the difference is the open ground between them.

Granada is the better base for getting out of town, with 27% of the surrounding land protected against 6% around Cordoba. It also has a much wider range of kitchens and about three times as many nightclubs, most of them central.

Where they are alike

Both centres are compact in the same way: each has about as many notable places within walking distance, so a day on foot needs no transport planning either way.

Their museum holdings are close too, and both are inland: neither has a beach nearby, and neither sees a month of sea at 21°C or more, so swimming is not part of either trip. Sunshine is near-identical, close to 3,000 hours a year in each.

Which traveller are you?

If you plan your days around eating and going out afterwards, Granada is the clearer choice: a much wider range of kitchens near the centre, more places to drink, and about three times as many nightclubs, nearly all central.

Travelling with children, Cordoba has about twice as much park space near the centre and a similar number of attractions to Granada, so more of a day can be spent outdoors on foot. Neither has a theme park.

For walking and days out of the city, Granada is surrounded by far more protected land, 27% against 6%, while Cordoba answers with 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Granada's 1.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figures here are the same for both by construction: they reflect a national price level rather than either city, so that comparison carries no information about Cordoba against Granada. The €122 daily budget sitting beside it is one national estimate, not a measurement of either place.

A city that runs warm across the year still has a summer at 35-37°C with almost no rain, and neither has a beach or a sea to cool off in. Cordoba's mildest autumn weather also arrives with its wettest months: October through December each bring 79mm or more.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
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. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Cordoba is at its best in April and May, at 24-28°C with 43-54mm of rain. October still reaches 26°C but brings 79mm, and November and December are wetter still. Midsummer sits at 37°C, too hot for walking far.

Granada's window is wider and drier: May at 25°C with 29mm, and September at 29°C with 28mm. More of its months stay at or under 40mm than Cordoba's, so a warm month there is less likely to be a wet one. Winter runs slightly cooler.

Getting there

Flying fromCordobaGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
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

MeasureCordobaGranada
Official languageSpanishSpanish
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
Elevation120 m693 m
Main airportCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCordobaGranada
City population323,262233,975
People per km²2582,659
Museums within 10 km1619
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2762

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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.