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Granada or Philadelphia?

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, 2 points apart

Granada
53
match

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

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

GranadaPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Philadelphia are level on 0.
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance48 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score6777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8721,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3435
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score4860
Museums within 10 km2889
Museums within 2 km of centre2648
Share of museums within 2 km %9354
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score5259
Drinking venues within 4 km637930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7862
Nightclubs within 4 km4641
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 14 points.14
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score6349
Protected land share 50 km %2714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9689
Park area within 2 km46 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 3 points.3
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score5653
Tourist attractions within 2 km6016
Park area within 2 km46 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score4454
Notable places within 2 km5088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 28 points.28
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 14 points.14
GranadaPhiladelphia
Score7460
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm69 mm to 112 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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Daytime high, °C
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 97 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 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

MeasureGranadaPhiladelphia
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation693 m12 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaPhiladelphia
City population233,9751,603,797
People per km²2,6594,339
Museums within 10 km1954
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6275

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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.