VacationSelector

Hamburg or Sydney?

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 and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and 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.

HamburgSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
HamburgSydney
Score060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km16160
Coast distance22 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 5 points.5
HamburgSydney
Score7378
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1502,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3831
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 9 points.9
HamburgSydney
Score6051
Museums within 10 km9444
Museums within 2 km of centre5020
Share of museums within 2 km %5345
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
HamburgSydney
Score6875
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3392,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8341,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6269
Nightclubs within 4 km119120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 18 points.18
HamburgSydney
Score4058
Protected land share 50 km %1410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9952
Park area within 2 km89 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 4 points.4
HamburgSydney
Score6064
Tourist attractions within 2 km4037
Park area within 2 km89 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 1 points.1
HamburgSydney
Score5960
Notable places within 2 km118123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 10 points.10
HamburgSydney
Score6050
Price level global75.990.2
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 26 points.26
HamburgSydney
Score5581
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgSydney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
6 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureHamburgSydney
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgSydney
City population1,910,1605,450,496
People per km²2,530449
Museums within 10 km7738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8379
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.