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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Interlaken or Oaxaca?

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
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Interlaken leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 59 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Oaxaca 62: Interlaken leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Oaxaca 65: Interlaken leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Oaxaca 40: Interlaken leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Oaxaca 55: Interlaken leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 69 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Oaxaca.

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 families with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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
15 hdaylight a day

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenOaxaca
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m1,555 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenOaxaca
City population6,123258,913
People per km²1,4243,028
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.