VacationSelector

Granada or Lucerne?

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 nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
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.

GranadaLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Lucerne are level on 0.
GranadaLucerne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km016
Coast distance48 km669 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Granada leads by 20 points.20
GranadaLucerne
Score6747
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3425
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 8 points.8
GranadaLucerne
Score4840
Museums within 10 km2823
Museums within 2 km of centre2613
Share of museums within 2 km %9357
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Granada leads by 24 points.24
GranadaLucerne
Score5228
Drinking venues within 4 km637202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7875
Nightclubs within 4 km4611
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 38 points.38
GranadaLucerne
Score6325
Protected land share 50 km %277
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %96100
Park area within 2 km46 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 18 points.18
GranadaLucerne
Score5638
Tourist attractions within 2 km6015
Park area within 2 km46 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Granada leads by 9 points.9
GranadaLucerne
Score4435
Notable places within 2 km5029
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 36 points.36
GranadaLucerne
Score7135
Price level global60.8110.5
Daily budget€122€248
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 21 points.21
GranadaLucerne
Score7453
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm60 mm to 128 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaLucerne
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
BerlinBER
3 h 20 m
€141-206
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 49 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 85 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

MeasureGranadaLucerne
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation693 m436 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaLucerne
City population233,97586,234
People per km²2,6592,963
Museums within 10 km1914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6246

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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.