VacationSelector

Interlaken or Shanghai?

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.

Shanghai
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

InterlakenShanghai
Beaches & swimming. Shanghai leads by 17 points.17
InterlakenShanghai
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance713 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. Shanghai leads by 22 points.22
InterlakenShanghai
Score2345
Museums within 10 km5108
Museums within 2 km of centre228
Share of museums within 2 km %4026
Unesco sites within 50 km20
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. Shanghai leads by 15 points.15
InterlakenShanghai
Score2742
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10082
Park area within 2 km5 hectares83 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 67 points.67
InterlakenShanghai
Score1481
Tourist attractions within 2 km1186
Park area within 2 km5 hectares83 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km010
Sights concentration. Shanghai leads by 29 points.29
InterlakenShanghai
Score2251
Notable places within 2 km1473
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 44 points.44
InterlakenShanghai
Score3579
Price level global110.549
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenShanghai
Score5765
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C8.5 °C to 33.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm43 mm to 216 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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4

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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenShanghai
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 30 m
€528-630
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
10 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
2 h 35 m
€216-247
PVG · 33 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 45 m
€326-382
PVG · 33 km
ChongqingCKG, CQW
10 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
2 h 25 m
€175-196
PVG · 33 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 km
2 h 0 m
€150-154
PVG · 33 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 10 m
€153-159
PVG · 33 km
ShenzhenSZX
11 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 135 km
2 h 5 m
€170-179
SHA · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 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

MeasureInterlakenShanghai
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPutonghua
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation571 m4 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenShanghai
City population6,12324,870,895
People per km²1,4243,922
Museums within 10 km344
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2264
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.