VacationSelector

Granada or Manchester?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

GranadaManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
GranadaManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance48 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 1 points.1
GranadaManchester
Score6768
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3435
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 6 points.6
GranadaManchester
Score4842
Museums within 10 km2823
Museums within 2 km of centre2611
Share of museums within 2 km %9348
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 10 points.10
GranadaManchester
Score5262
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7877
Nightclubs within 4 km4682
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 27 points.27
GranadaManchester
Score6336
Protected land share 50 km %2717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %9699
Park area within 2 km46 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 24 points.24
GranadaManchester
Score5632
Tourist attractions within 2 km605
Park area within 2 km46 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 4 points.4
GranadaManchester
Score4448
Notable places within 2 km5061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 17 points.17
GranadaManchester
Score7154
Price level global60.884.9
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 20 points.20
GranadaManchester
Score7454
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm51 mm to 95 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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A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGranadaManchester
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
OsloOSL, TRF
4 h 0 m
€151-202
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureGranadaManchester
Official languageSpanishEnglish
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
Elevation693 m38 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaManchester
City population233,975547,627
People per km²2,6594,737
Museums within 10 km1928
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6263
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.