VacationSelector

Granada or Washington DC?

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

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

GranadaWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Washington DC leads by 18 points.18
GranadaWashington DC
Score018
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance48 km34 km
Water distance34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 10 points.10
GranadaWashington DC
Score6777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8721,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3436
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 7 points.7
GranadaWashington DC
Score4855
Museums within 10 km2883
Museums within 2 km of centre2655
Share of museums within 2 km %9366
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 9 points.9
GranadaWashington DC
Score5261
Drinking venues within 4 km6371,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7858
Nightclubs within 4 km4654
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 21 points.21
GranadaWashington DC
Score6342
Protected land share 50 km %2710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %9694
Park area within 2 km46 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 18 points.18
GranadaWashington DC
Score5638
Tourist attractions within 2 km607
Park area within 2 km46 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 32 points.32
GranadaWashington DC
Score4476
Notable places within 2 km50305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 28 points.28
GranadaWashington DC
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 12 points.12
GranadaWashington DC
Score7462
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
Washington DC
No sunshine record

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

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaWashington DC
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
7 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureGranadaWashington DC
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 m72 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaWashington DC
City population233,975689,545
People per km²2,6593,896
Museums within 10 km1999
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6282
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.