VacationSelector

Interlaken or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

InterlakenRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
InterlakenRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1222
Coast distance713 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 43 points.43
InterlakenRotterdam
Score2972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1746
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
InterlakenRotterdam
Score2360
Museums within 10 km541
Museums within 2 km of centre220
Share of museums within 2 km %4049
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 45 points.45
InterlakenRotterdam
Score449
Drinking venues within 4 km42542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9070
Nightclubs within 4 km340
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
InterlakenRotterdam
Score2742
Protected land share 50 km %1910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km5 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 48 points.48
InterlakenRotterdam
Score1462
Tourist attractions within 2 km1127
Park area within 2 km5 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 29 points.29
InterlakenRotterdam
Score2251
Notable places within 2 km1474
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 23 points.23
InterlakenRotterdam
Score3558
Price level global110.579.2
Daily budget€248€181
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 1 points.1
InterlakenRotterdam
Score5756
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenRotterdam
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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 2026-09 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

MeasureInterlakenRotterdam
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshDutch
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation571 m10 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenRotterdam
City population6,123664,311
People per km²1,4242,080
Museums within 10 km340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre2277
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.