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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
The Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi, Kochi
KochiThe Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kochi by Vis M, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Interlaken or Kochi?

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 Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Kochi for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Kochi’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. Interlaken 30, Kochi 38: Kochi leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Kochi 66: Kochi leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Kochi 62: Kochi leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Kochi 18: Kochi leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Kochi 55: Interlaken leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Kochi 52: Interlaken leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Kochi 40: Interlaken leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Kochi 44: Interlaken leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Kochi 45: Kochi leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Kochi 88: Kochi leads by 80 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Kochi 40: Kochi leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Kochi 70: Kochi leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Kochi.

Your match

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

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Kochi
Best match
52match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Interlaken in July

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

Kochi in July

27 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
439 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
13 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.

Kochi has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Kochi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenKochi
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshHindi, English
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation571 m0 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsCochin International Airport (COK)24 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenKochi
City population6,123677,381
People per km²1,4247,138
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.