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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Interlaken or Miami Beach?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Miami Beach 52: Miami Beach leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Miami Beach 52: Interlaken leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Miami Beach 55: Interlaken leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Miami Beach 60: Interlaken leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Miami Beach 58: Interlaken leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Miami Beach 20: Miami Beach leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Miami Beach 48: Miami Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Miami Beach.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Miami Beach
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InterlakenMiami Beach

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). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenMiami Beach
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh-
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m1 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenMiami Beach
City population6,12382,890
People per km²1,4242,109
Museums within 10 km314
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.