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Interlaken or Macau?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
Interlaken

Photo: Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

Your match

Interlaken
41
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Macau
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

InterlakenMacau
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken leads by 6 points.6
Food & drink. Macau leads by 52 points.52
Culture & sights. Macau leads by 54 points.54
Nightlife. Macau leads by 25 points.25
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken leads by 92 points.92
Day trips. Interlaken leads by 26 points.26
Good for families. Interlaken leads by 24 points.24
Getting around. Interlaken leads by 20 points.20
Shopping & style. Macau leads by 36 points.36
Affordability. Macau leads by 36 points.36
Live music & performing arts. Macau leads by 21 points.21
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken and Macau are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Macau.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyInterlakenMacau
Daytime high24 °C32 °C
Night-time low14 °C26 °C
Rainfall in the month62 mm281 mm
SunshineNo figure7 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea29 °C
Daylight15 hours a day13 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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D
Daytime high, °C
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5

Where the figures come from

Interlaken's rainfall is measured 66 km from the centre, at Sion.

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). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenMacau
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 10 m
€159-193
MFM · 7 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 35 m
€180-240
MFM · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 km
3 h 0 m
€181-203
1 stop
MFM · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 41 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 41 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureInterlakenMacau
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation571 m22 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenMacau
City population6,123682,100
People per km²1,4245,916
Museums within 10 km328
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.