VacationSelector

Frankfurt or York?

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 good for families with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

FrankfurtYork
Beaches & swimming. Frankfurt and York are level on 0.
FrankfurtYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km42
Coast distance327 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 16 points.16
FrankfurtYork
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 23 points.23
FrankfurtYork
Score6946
Museums within 10 km7918
Museums within 2 km of centre4316
Share of museums within 2 km %5489
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 16 points.16
FrankfurtYork
Score5943
Drinking venues within 4 km931450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7478
Nightclubs within 4 km5614
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 31 points.31
FrankfurtYork
Score6433
Protected land share 50 km %2817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1116
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km124 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 25 points.25
FrankfurtYork
Score6843
Tourist attractions within 2 km4513
Park area within 2 km124 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 22 points.22
FrankfurtYork
Score6139
Notable places within 2 km12937
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 6 points.6
FrankfurtYork
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 6 points.6
FrankfurtYork
Score6256
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months11
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtYork
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 13 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€142-154
FRA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BridgetownBGI
9 h 20 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 13 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
3 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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 2026-08 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

MeasureFrankfurtYork
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation101 m25 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtYork
City population775,790208,400
People per km²3,124766
Museums within 10 km5324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre7154

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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. 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.

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.