VacationSelector

Interlaken or Seattle?

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.

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

InterlakenSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
InterlakenSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km12100
Coast distance713 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 46 points.46
InterlakenSeattle
Score2975
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1181,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1735
Museums & heritage. Seattle leads by 13 points.13
InterlakenSeattle
Score2336
Museums within 10 km528
Museums within 2 km of centre217
Share of museums within 2 km %4061
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 53 points.53
InterlakenSeattle
Score457
Drinking venues within 4 km42873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9080
Nightclubs within 4 km334
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 13 points.13
InterlakenSeattle
Score2740
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km5 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 32 points.32
InterlakenSeattle
Score1446
Tourist attractions within 2 km1117
Park area within 2 km5 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 30 points.30
InterlakenSeattle
Score2252
Notable places within 2 km1476
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenSeattle
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 4 points.4
InterlakenSeattle
Score5761
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months33
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureInterlakenSeattle
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m40 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenSeattle
City population6,123737,015
People per km²1,4241,996
Museums within 10 km327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2278
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.