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Hong Kong or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

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 KongThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 32 points.32
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score8755
Swim season months85
Beaches 10 km654
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 38 points.38
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score8850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Thessaloniki leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score3649
Museums within 10 km5034
Museums within 2 km of centre1722
Share of museums within 2 km %3465
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 4 points.4
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score7167
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5957
Nightclubs within 4 km3761
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 1 points.1
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score6465
Protected land share 50 km %825
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2983
Park area within 2 km52 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score5841
Tourist attractions within 2 km2716
Park area within 2 km52 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score6956
Notable places within 2 km20498
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score6374
Price level global7255.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongThessaloniki
Score7472
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months49
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Thessaloniki
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
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
11 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 50 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
9 h 45 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 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 KongThessaloniki
Official languageStandard ChineseGreek
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongThessaloniki
City population7,413,070309,617
People per km²16,042
Museums within 10 km3931
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7645
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 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.