VacationSelector

Heidelberg or York?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

HeidelbergYork
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and York are level on 0.
HeidelbergYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km62
Coast distance406 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. York leads by 7 points.7
HeidelbergYork
Score4754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 13 points.13
HeidelbergYork
Score5946
Museums within 10 km5418
Museums within 2 km of centre2316
Share of museums within 2 km %4389
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. York leads by 16 points.16
HeidelbergYork
Score2743
Drinking venues within 4 km201450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8478
Nightclubs within 4 km814
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 41 points.41
HeidelbergYork
Score7433
Protected land share 50 km %5217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2216
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km20 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg and York are level on 43.
HeidelbergYork
Score4343
Tourist attractions within 2 km2913
Park area within 2 km20 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. York leads by 3 points.3
HeidelbergYork
Score3639
Notable places within 2 km3137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 6 points.6
HeidelbergYork
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 5 points.5
HeidelbergYork
Score6156
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergYork
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 69 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 69 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 69 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€142-154
FRA · 69 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BridgetownBGI
9 h 20 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 69 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
3 h 40 m
no fares
FKB · 84 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureHeidelbergYork
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
Elevation114 m25 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergYork
City population162,960208,400
People per km²1,496766
Museums within 10 km1724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre4554

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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.