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Cordoba or Heidelberg?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

CordobaHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Cordoba and Heidelberg are level on 0.
CordobaHeidelberg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance134 km406 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cordoba and Heidelberg are level on 47.
CordobaHeidelberg
Score4747
Restaurants within 2 km of centre616269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1326
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 12 points.12
CordobaHeidelberg
Score4759
Museums within 10 km2054
Museums within 2 km of centre1923
Share of museums within 2 km %9543
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Cordoba leads by 16 points.16
CordobaHeidelberg
Score4327
Drinking venues within 4 km444201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre353169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8084
Nightclubs within 4 km148
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 37 points.37
CordobaHeidelberg
Score3774
Protected land share 50 km %652
Landscape blanket share 50 km %022
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km108 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 20 points.20
CordobaHeidelberg
Score6343
Tourist attractions within 2 km5929
Park area within 2 km108 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Cordoba leads by 8 points.8
CordobaHeidelberg
Score4436
Notable places within 2 km4831
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cordoba leads by 11 points.11
CordobaHeidelberg
Score7160
Price level global60.875.9
Daily budget€122€163
Year-round weather. Cordoba leads by 11 points.11
CordobaHeidelberg
Score7261
Monthly daytime high15.1 °C to 37.1 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 91 mm45 mm to 80 mm
Dry months40
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
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCordobaHeidelberg
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 50 m
€121-146
FRA · 69 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 69 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 111 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
HHN · 120 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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

MeasureCordobaHeidelberg
Official languageSpanishGerman
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 m114 m
Main airportCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCordobaHeidelberg
City population323,262162,960
People per km²2581,496
Museums within 10 km1617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre2745

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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.