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Frankfurt or Varanasi?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Römer, the old city hall, Frankfurt
Frankfurt

Photo: Thomas Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, cropped

Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
Varanasi

Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Varanasi
40
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

FrankfurtVaranasi
Beaches & swimming. Frankfurt leads by 4 points.4
Food & drink. Varanasi leads by 3 points.3
Culture & sights. Varanasi leads by 20 points.20
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 42 points.42
Nature & outdoors. Frankfurt leads by 40 points.40
Day trips. Frankfurt leads by 44 points.44
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 57 points.57
Getting around. Frankfurt leads by 50 points.50
Shopping & style. Frankfurt leads by 1 points.1
Affordability. Varanasi leads by 54 points.54
Live music & performing arts. Frankfurt leads by 10 points.10
Wellness & relaxation. Frankfurt leads by 22 points.22
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Frankfurt and Varanasi.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyFrankfurtVaranasi
Daytime high26 °C35 °C
Night-time low16 °C27 °C
Rainfall in the month68 mm249 mm
Sunshine8 hours a dayNo figure
Daylight16 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure 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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Varanasi
24
29
35
41
43
41
35
33
32
32
28
24
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Varanasi
12
14
10
11
23
110
249
200
146
34
2
5
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Varanasi
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
Varanasi
No sunshine record

Where the figures come from

Varanasi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Varanasi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtVaranasi
MumbaiBOM, NMI
8 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€147-164
VNS · 21 km
New DelhiDEL
7 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€121-127
VNS · 21 km
BengaluruBLR
9 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNS · 21 km
HyderabadHYD
9 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
VNS · 21 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
3 h 20 m
€433-468
1 stop
VNS · 21 km
ChennaiMAA
9 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
VNS · 21 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureFrankfurtVaranasi
Official languageGermanHindi, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation101 m76 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre296 non-stop destinationsLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtVaranasi
City population775,7901,198,491
People per km²3,12414,598
Museums within 10 km532
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41

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Sources

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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.