VacationSelector

Granada or Shanghai?

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.

Shanghai
54
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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.

GranadaShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
GranadaShanghai
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance48 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 3 points.3
GranadaShanghai
Score4845
Museums within 10 km28108
Museums within 2 km of centre2628
Share of museums within 2 km %9326
Unesco sites within 50 km10
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 21 points.21
GranadaShanghai
Score6342
Protected land share 50 km %279
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9682
Park area within 2 km46 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 25 points.25
GranadaShanghai
Score5681
Tourist attractions within 2 km6086
Park area within 2 km46 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km010
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 7 points.7
GranadaShanghai
Score4451
Notable places within 2 km5073
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 8 points.8
GranadaShanghai
Score7179
Price level global60.849
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 9 points.9
GranadaShanghai
Score7465
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaShanghai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 97 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasureGranadaShanghai
Official languageSpanishPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation693 m4 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaShanghai
City population233,97524,870,895
People per km²2,6593,922
Museums within 10 km1944
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6264
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.