VacationSelector

Hamburg or Milan?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

HamburgMilan
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and Milan are level on 0.
HamburgMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km164
Coast distance22 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 3 points.3
HamburgMilan
Score7370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1501,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3820
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 14 points.14
HamburgMilan
Score6074
Museums within 10 km9487
Museums within 2 km of centre5055
Share of museums within 2 km %5363
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Milan leads by 7 points.7
HamburgMilan
Score6875
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3392,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6243
Nightclubs within 4 km11970
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 25 points.25
HamburgMilan
Score4065
Protected land share 50 km %1430
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1011
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 17 points.17
HamburgMilan
Score6077
Tourist attractions within 2 km4076
Park area within 2 km89 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 15 points.15
HamburgMilan
Score5974
Notable places within 2 km118266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 8 points.8
HamburgMilan
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 9 points.9
HamburgMilan
Score5564
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm44 mm to 127 mm
Dry months10
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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€96
MXP · 40 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 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

MeasureHamburgMilan
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m138 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgMilan
City population1,910,1601,354,196
People per km²2,5307,453
Museums within 10 km7787
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre8379

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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. 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.