VacationSelector

Granada or Thessaloniki?

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

Your match

Granada
53
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
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.

GranadaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 55 points.55
GranadaThessaloniki
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance48 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 17 points.17
GranadaThessaloniki
Score6750
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3415
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.1
GranadaThessaloniki
Score4849
Museums within 10 km2834
Museums within 2 km of centre2622
Share of museums within 2 km %9365
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 15 points.15
GranadaThessaloniki
Score5267
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km4661
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
GranadaThessaloniki
Score6365
Protected land share 50 km %2725
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9683
Park area within 2 km46 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 15 points.15
GranadaThessaloniki
Score5641
Tourist attractions within 2 km6016
Park area within 2 km46 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 12 points.12
GranadaThessaloniki
Score4456
Notable places within 2 km5098
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 3 points.3
GranadaThessaloniki
Score7174
Price level global60.855.8
Daily budget€122€125
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 2 points.2
GranadaThessaloniki
Score7472
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months79
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Thessaloniki
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
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaThessaloniki
AthensATH
3 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 50 m
€133-149
AGP · 97 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 50 m
€155-238
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureGranadaThessaloniki
Official languageSpanishGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation693 m6 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaThessaloniki
City population233,975309,617
People per km²2,65916,042
Museums within 10 km1931
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6245
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. 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.