VacationSelector

Granada or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

GranadaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
GranadaRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance48 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 5 points.5
GranadaRotterdam
Score6772
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3446
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 12 points.12
GranadaRotterdam
Score4860
Museums within 10 km2841
Museums within 2 km of centre2620
Share of museums within 2 km %9349
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Granada leads by 3 points.3
GranadaRotterdam
Score5249
Drinking venues within 4 km637542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km4640
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 21 points.21
GranadaRotterdam
Score6342
Protected land share 50 km %2710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9679
Park area within 2 km46 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 6 points.6
GranadaRotterdam
Score5662
Tourist attractions within 2 km6027
Park area within 2 km46 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 7 points.7
GranadaRotterdam
Score4451
Notable places within 2 km5074
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 13 points.13
GranadaRotterdam
Score7158
Price level global60.879.2
Daily budget€122€181
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 18 points.18
GranadaRotterdam
Score7456
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaRotterdam
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 97 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 5 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

MeasureGranadaRotterdam
Official languageSpanishDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation693 m10 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaRotterdam
City population233,975664,311
People per km²2,6592,080
Museums within 10 km1940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre6277
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. 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.