VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Lyon?

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

Your match

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Lyon
52
match

Wins on places to eat and value for money 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.

FrankfurtLyon
Beaches & swimming. Frankfurt and Lyon are level on 0.
FrankfurtLyon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km426
Coast distance327 km253 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 9 points.9
FrankfurtLyon
Score7079
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1601,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3140
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 14 points.14
FrankfurtLyon
Score6955
Museums within 10 km7953
Museums within 2 km of centre4325
Share of museums within 2 km %5447
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtLyon
Score5958
Drinking venues within 4 km931866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7471
Nightclubs within 4 km5647
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 31 points.31
FrankfurtLyon
Score6433
Protected land share 50 km %286
Landscape blanket share 50 km %116
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km124 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 9 points.9
FrankfurtLyon
Score6859
Tourist attractions within 2 km4525
Park area within 2 km124 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 7 points.7
FrankfurtLyon
Score6154
Notable places within 2 km12986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
FrankfurtLyon
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
FrankfurtLyon
Score6264
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm43 mm to 101 mm
Dry months10
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€109-165
LYS · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 13 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 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

MeasureFrankfurtLyon
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation101 m160 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtLyon
City population775,790519,127
People per km²3,12410,838
Museums within 10 km5342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre71148

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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.