VacationSelector

Hamburg or Paris?

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

Your match

Hamburg
53
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
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.

HamburgParis
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and Paris are level on 0.
HamburgParis
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km162
Coast distance22 km149 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 17 points.17
HamburgParis
Score7390
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1504,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3833
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 16 points.16
HamburgParis
Score6076
Museums within 10 km94185
Museums within 2 km of centre5065
Share of museums within 2 km %5335
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Paris leads by 20 points.20
HamburgParis
Score6888
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3393,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8341,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6245
Nightclubs within 4 km119201
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 8 points.8
HamburgParis
Score4048
Protected land share 50 km %1428
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1026
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 15 points.15
HamburgParis
Score6075
Tourist attractions within 2 km4089
Park area within 2 km89 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 35 points.35
HamburgParis
Score5994
Notable places within 2 km118865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 2 points.2
HamburgParis
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 11 points.11
HamburgParis
Score5566
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm38 mm to 75 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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Daytime high, °C
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgParis
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€160-210
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€122-134
CDG · 22 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ORY · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€153-171
CDG · 22 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 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

MeasureHamburgParis
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m27 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgParis
City population1,910,1602,103,778
People per km²2,53019,960
Museums within 10 km77251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre83169

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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.