VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Valencia?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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 KongValencia
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Hong KongValencia
Score8767
Swim season months85
Beaches 10 km6512
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 10 points.10
Hong KongValencia
Score8878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3233
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 19 points.19
Hong KongValencia
Score3655
Museums within 10 km5059
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %3444
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 1 points.1
Hong KongValencia
Score7170
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5963
Nightclubs within 4 km37108
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongValencia
Score6453
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2964
Park area within 2 km52 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 16 points.16
Hong KongValencia
Score5842
Tourist attractions within 2 km2712
Park area within 2 km52 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongValencia
Score6952
Notable places within 2 km20478
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongValencia
Score6371
Price level global7260.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 10 points.10
Hong KongValencia
Score7484
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months48
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€151-206
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 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 KongValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongValencia
City population7,413,070840,792
People per km²6,242
Museums within 10 km3946
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7692
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.