VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Venice?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

HeidelbergVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
HeidelbergVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km620
Coast distance406 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Heidelberg leads by 2 points.2
HeidelbergVenice
Score4745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2610
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 13 points.13
HeidelbergVenice
Score5972
Museums within 10 km5457
Museums within 2 km of centre2345
Share of museums within 2 km %4379
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Venice leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergVenice
Score2735
Drinking venues within 4 km201342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8489
Nightclubs within 4 km83
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 57 points.57
HeidelbergVenice
Score7417
Protected land share 50 km %524
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km20 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 14 points.14
HeidelbergVenice
Score4357
Tourist attractions within 2 km2972
Park area within 2 km20 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 47 points.47
HeidelbergVenice
Score3683
Notable places within 2 km31464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergVenice
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 5 points.5
HeidelbergVenice
Score6166
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 69 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 69 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHeidelbergVenice
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
Elevation114 m2 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergVenice
City population162,960250,369
People per km²1,496602
Museums within 10 km1752
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre4546
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.