VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Interlaken?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Hong KongInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
Hong KongInterlaken
Score870
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km6512
Coast distance0 km713 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 59 points.59
Hong KongInterlaken
Score8829
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3217
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongInterlaken
Score3623
Museums within 10 km505
Museums within 2 km of centre172
Share of museums within 2 km %3440
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 67 points.67
Hong KongInterlaken
Score714
Drinking venues within 4 km1,94842
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,15438
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5990
Nightclubs within 4 km373
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 37 points.37
Hong KongInterlaken
Score6427
Protected land share 50 km %819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %29100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 44 points.44
Hong KongInterlaken
Score5814
Tourist attractions within 2 km2711
Park area within 2 km52 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 47 points.47
Hong KongInterlaken
Score6922
Notable places within 2 km20414
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 28 points.28
Hong KongInterlaken
Score6335
Price level global72110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongInterlaken
Score7457
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months43
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 10 m
€214-253
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureHong KongInterlaken
Official languageStandard ChineseFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m571 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongInterlaken
City population7,413,0706,123
People per km²1,424
Museums within 10 km393
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7622
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. 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. 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.