VacationSelector

Interlaken or Miami?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InterlakenMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
InterlakenMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km1220
Coast distance713 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 36 points.36
InterlakenMiami
Score2965
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1729
Museums & heritage. Interlaken and Miami are level on 23.
InterlakenMiami
Score2323
Museums within 10 km528
Museums within 2 km of centre26
Share of museums within 2 km %4021
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Miami leads by 46 points.46
InterlakenMiami
Score450
Drinking venues within 4 km42538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9053
Nightclubs within 4 km363
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 45 points.45
InterlakenMiami
Score2772
Protected land share 50 km %1916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km5 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 30 points.30
InterlakenMiami
Score1444
Tourist attractions within 2 km1114
Park area within 2 km5 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Miami leads by 20 points.20
InterlakenMiami
Score2242
Notable places within 2 km1445
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Miami leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenMiami
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 17 points.17
InterlakenMiami
Score5774
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months30
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BogotaBOG
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInterlakenMiami
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 m2 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenMiami
City population6,123442,241
People per km²1,4243,046
Museums within 10 km317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2239
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.

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.