VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Madrid?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Hong Kong
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Madrid
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

Hong KongMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
Hong KongMadrid
Score870
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km654
Coast distance0 km305 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
Hong KongMadrid
Score8883
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3253,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3228
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 39 points.39
Hong KongMadrid
Score3675
Museums within 10 km5097
Museums within 2 km of centre1759
Share of museums within 2 km %3461
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 10 points.10
Hong KongMadrid
Score7181
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9482,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,1541,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5962
Nightclubs within 4 km37341
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 1 points.1
Hong KongMadrid
Score6463
Protected land share 50 km %819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %29100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 19 points.19
Hong KongMadrid
Score5877
Tourist attractions within 2 km2761
Park area within 2 km52 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 6 points.6
Hong KongMadrid
Score6975
Notable places within 2 km204288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongMadrid
Score6371
Price level global7260.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongMadrid
Score7472
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months47
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongMadrid
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
11 h 20 m
€861-905
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 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 KongMadrid
Official languageStandard ChineseSpanish
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m663 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongMadrid
City population7,413,0703,506,730
People per km²–5,801
Museums within 10 km3988
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre76106
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.