VacationSelector

Granada or Heidelberg?

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

Your match

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Heidelberg
45
match

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

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Scoreboard

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

GranadaHeidelberg
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Heidelberg are level on 0.
GranadaHeidelberg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance48 km406 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Granada leads by 20 points.20
GranadaHeidelberg
Score6747
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3426
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 11 points.11
GranadaHeidelberg
Score4859
Museums within 10 km2854
Museums within 2 km of centre2623
Share of museums within 2 km %9343
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Granada leads by 25 points.25
GranadaHeidelberg
Score5227
Drinking venues within 4 km637201
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494169
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7884
Nightclubs within 4 km468
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 11 points.11
GranadaHeidelberg
Score6374
Protected land share 50 km %2752
Landscape blanket share 50 km %022
Land share of disc %96100
Park area within 2 km46 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 13 points.13
GranadaHeidelberg
Score5643
Tourist attractions within 2 km6029
Park area within 2 km46 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Granada leads by 8 points.8
GranadaHeidelberg
Score4436
Notable places within 2 km5031
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 11 points.11
GranadaHeidelberg
Score7160
Price level global60.875.9
Daily budget€122€163
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 13 points.13
GranadaHeidelberg
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C5.2 °C to 25.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm45 mm to 80 mm
Dry months70
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
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. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaHeidelberg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 55 m
€128-178
FRA · 69 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 69 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 69 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
HHN · 120 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGranadaHeidelberg
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
Elevation693 m114 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaHeidelberg
City population233,975162,960
People per km²2,6591,496
Museums within 10 km1917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre6245

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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.