VacationSelector

Hamburg or Interlaken?

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

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

HamburgInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and Interlaken are level on 0.
HamburgInterlaken
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1612
Coast distance22 km713 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 44 points.44
HamburgInterlaken
Score7329
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3817
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 37 points.37
HamburgInterlaken
Score6023
Museums within 10 km945
Museums within 2 km of centre502
Share of museums within 2 km %5340
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 64 points.64
HamburgInterlaken
Score684
Drinking venues within 4 km1,33942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre83438
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6290
Nightclubs within 4 km1193
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 13 points.13
HamburgInterlaken
Score4027
Protected land share 50 km %1419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 46 points.46
HamburgInterlaken
Score6014
Tourist attractions within 2 km4011
Park area within 2 km89 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 37 points.37
HamburgInterlaken
Score5922
Notable places within 2 km11814
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 25 points.25
HamburgInterlaken
Score6035
Price level global75.9110.5
Daily budget€163€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 2 points.2
HamburgInterlaken
Score5557
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months13
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 35 m
€162-200
HAM · 9 km
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureHamburgInterlaken
Official languageGermanFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m571 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgInterlaken
City population1,910,1606,123
People per km²2,5301,424
Museums within 10 km773
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8322

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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.