VacationSelector

Granada or Lyon?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Granada
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Lyon
52
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

GranadaLyon
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Lyon are level on 0.
GranadaLyon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km026
Coast distance48 km253 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 12 points.12
GranadaLyon
Score6779
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8721,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3440
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 7 points.7
GranadaLyon
Score4855
Museums within 10 km2853
Museums within 2 km of centre2625
Share of museums within 2 km %9347
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 6 points.6
GranadaLyon
Score5258
Drinking venues within 4 km637866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km4647
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 30 points.30
GranadaLyon
Score6333
Protected land share 50 km %276
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %96100
Park area within 2 km46 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 3 points.3
GranadaLyon
Score5659
Tourist attractions within 2 km6025
Park area within 2 km46 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 10 points.10
GranadaLyon
Score4454
Notable places within 2 km5086
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 9 points.9
GranadaLyon
Score7162
Price level global60.873.7
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 10 points.10
GranadaLyon
Score7464
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
7 h 35 m
€446-565
1 stop
LYS · 20 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

MeasureGranadaLyon
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation693 m160 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaLyon
City population233,975519,127
People per km²2,65910,838
Museums within 10 km1942
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre62148

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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.