VacationSelector

Hamburg or London?

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

Your match

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

HamburgLondon
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and London are level on 0.
HamburgLondon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1647
Coast distance22 km43 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 15 points.15
HamburgLondon
Score7388
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1503,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3840
Museums & heritage. London leads by 12 points.12
HamburgLondon
Score6072
Museums within 10 km94148
Museums within 2 km of centre5049
Share of museums within 2 km %5333
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. London leads by 27 points.27
HamburgLondon
Score6895
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3395,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8342,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6246
Nightclubs within 4 km119312
Nature & day trips. Hamburg and London are level on 40.
HamburgLondon
Score4040
Protected land share 50 km %1416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1014
Land share of disc %9997
Park area within 2 km89 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 15 points.15
HamburgLondon
Score6075
Tourist attractions within 2 km4085
Park area within 2 km89 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. London leads by 30 points.30
HamburgLondon
Score5989
Notable places within 2 km118649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 6 points.6
HamburgLondon
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. London leads by 8 points.8
HamburgLondon
Score5563
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months11
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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F
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A
M
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J
A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgLondon
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€79-116
LGW · 40 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 35 m
€162-200
HAM · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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

MeasureHamburgLondon
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation6 m4 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgLondon
City population1,910,1608,799,728
People per km²2,5305,598
Museums within 10 km77215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre83116

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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.