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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Interlaken or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Interlaken leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Interlaken leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: Interlaken leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Interlaken leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken and St. Petersburg, Florida are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches 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
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InterlakenSt. Petersburg, Florida

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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenSt. Petersburg, Florida
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m134 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population6,123258,308
People per km²1,424725
Museums within 10 km313
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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.