VacationSelector

Interlaken or New York?

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.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

InterlakenNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
InterlakenNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km1217
Coast distance713 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 66 points.66
InterlakenNew York
Score2995
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1186,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1738
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 37 points.37
InterlakenNew York
Score2360
Museums within 10 km5119
Museums within 2 km of centre231
Share of museums within 2 km %4026
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 85 points.85
InterlakenNew York
Score489
Drinking venues within 4 km424,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre382,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9048
Nightclubs within 4 km3192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 12 points.12
InterlakenNew York
Score2739
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km5 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 58 points.58
InterlakenNew York
Score1472
Tourist attractions within 2 km1137
Park area within 2 km5 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. New York leads by 52 points.52
InterlakenNew York
Score2274
Notable places within 2 km14268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. New York leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenNew York
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. New York leads by 1 points.1
InterlakenNew York
Score5758
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureInterlakenNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenNew York
City population6,1238,804,190
People per km²1,4247,256
Museums within 10 km3157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre22132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.