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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Interlaken or Phnom Penh?

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
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Interlaken leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Phnom Penh 28: Interlaken leads by 69 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Phnom Penh 34: Interlaken leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Phnom Penh 32: Interlaken leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Phnom Penh 35: Interlaken leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 78 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Phnom Penh 32: Phnom Penh leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Phnom Penh 50: Phnom Penh leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Phnom Penh.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
Best match
44match

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
15 hdaylight a day

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenPhnom Penh
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshKhmer
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation571 m11 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenPhnom Penh
City population6,1232,129,371
People per km²1,4243,138
Museums within 10 km33
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.