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Granada or Kathmandu?

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

Comares Tower and the Palace of Charles V, Alhambra, Granada
Granada

Photo: Jebulon, CC0

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Granada
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Kathmandu
48
match

Wins on prices and shopping 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.

GranadaKathmandu
Beaches & swimming. Granada leads by 34 points.34
Food & drink. Granada leads by 7 points.7
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 2 points.2
Nightlife. Granada leads by 22 points.22
Nature & outdoors. Granada leads by 10 points.10
Day trips. Granada leads by 20 points.20
Good for families. Granada leads by 32 points.32
Getting around. Granada leads by 43 points.43
Shopping & style. Kathmandu leads by 15 points.15
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 34 points.34
Live music & performing arts. Granada leads by 30 points.30
Wellness & relaxation. Granada leads by 3 points.3
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Granada and Kathmandu.

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
JulyGranadaKathmandu
Daytime high35 °C29 °C
Night-time low18 °C20 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm384 mm
Sunshine13 hours a day4 hours a day
Daylight14 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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaKathmandu
DohaDOH
7 h 5 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
4 h 35 m
€459-552
KTM · 4 km
Kuwait CityKWI
6 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 km
RiyadhRUH
6 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
4 h 15 m
€415-478
KTM · 4 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

MeasureGranadaKathmandu
Official languageSpanishNepali
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:45
Emergency number112Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation693 m1,300 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaKathmandu
City population233,975845,767
People per km²2,65917,121
Museums within 10 km199
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. 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.

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.