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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Interlaken or Lisbon?

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 Lisbon for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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, Lisbon 50: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Lisbon 78: Lisbon leads by 70 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 60 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Lisbon 75: Interlaken leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Lisbon 82: Lisbon leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Lisbon 62: Interlaken leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Lisbon 66: Interlaken leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Lisbon 55: Lisbon leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Lisbon 60: Lisbon leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Lisbon 36: Interlaken leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Lisbon.

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.

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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.

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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenLisbon
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPortuguese
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m100 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenLisbon
City population6,123545,796
People per km²1,4245,453
Museums within 10 km380
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.