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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hobart or Interlaken?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Hobart for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’s own page.

Choose Interlaken for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Hobart and Interlaken are level on 30.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Interlaken 25: Hobart leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Interlaken 8: Hobart leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Interlaken 15: Hobart leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, Interlaken 97: Interlaken leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Interlaken 78: Interlaken leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Interlaken 72: Interlaken leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Interlaken 80: Interlaken leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, Interlaken 22: Hobart leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Interlaken 8: Hobart leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Interlaken 15: Hobart leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart and Interlaken are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Interlaken.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Hobart
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Interlaken has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHobartInterlaken
Official languageEnglishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation54 m571 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartInterlaken
City population197,4516,123
People per km²1161,424
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.