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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
Painted colonial houses in the Pelourinho, Salvador
SalvadorPainted colonial houses in the Pelourinho

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salvador by Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Interlaken or Salvador?

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
  • families

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

Choose Salvador for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Salvador’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, Salvador 84: Salvador leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Salvador 66: Salvador leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Salvador 74: Salvador leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Salvador 52: Interlaken leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Salvador 56: Interlaken leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Salvador 42: Interlaken leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Salvador 42: Interlaken leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Salvador 42: Salvador leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Salvador 63: Salvador leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Salvador 32: Interlaken leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Salvador.

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.

Salvador
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Salvador in July

27 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
201 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InterlakenSalvador

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). Salvador: 1991-2020 normals, Salvador (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenSalvador
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPortuguese
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation571 m8 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsDeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (SSA)20 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenSalvador
City population6,1232,417,678
People per km²1,4243,489
Museums within 10 km349
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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.

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.