Interlaken or Verona?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.
Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.
What matters to you?
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The verdict
Choose Interlaken if the trip is built around the outdoors: 12 beaches nearby and a far larger share of the land around it protected. It is a small town, and quiet in the evening.
Choose Verona if you want a walkable centre with museums close together, many more places to eat and drink, and, with children along, theme parks and attractions within reach.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Verona are level on 0.
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 12 | 2 |
| Coast distance | 713 km | 104 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Verona leads by 14 points.14
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 29 | 43 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 118 | 477 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 17 | 13 |
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 33 points.33
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 23 | 56 |
| Museums within 10 km | 5 | 20 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 2 | 19 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 40 | 95 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 2 | 5 |
Nightlife. Verona leads by 36 points.36
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 4 | 40 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 42 | 416 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 38 | 269 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 90 | 65 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 3 | 9 |
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 9 points.9
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 27 | 36 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 19 | 9 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 5 hectares | 59 hectares |
Good for families. Verona leads by 55 points.55
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 14 | 69 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 11 | 62 |
| Park area within 2 km | 5 hectares | 59 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 0 | 4 |
Sights concentration. Verona leads by 31 points.31
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 22 | 53 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 14 | 82 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Verona leads by 33 points.33
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 35 | 68 |
| Price level global | 110.5 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €248 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 8 points.8
| Interlaken | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 57 | 65 |
| Monthly daytime high | 2.8 °C to 23.6 °C | 6.8 °C to 30.3 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 34 mm to 68 mm | 38 mm to 85 mm |
| Dry months | 3 | 1 |
Where they differ
Interlaken is the outdoor pick: 12 beaches nearby against Verona's 2, and 19% of the surrounding land protected against 9% around Verona. It also offers a somewhat wider range of kitchens.
Verona is the stronger city trip: many times as many museums, tightly grouped around the centre, and 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Interlaken's 2. Far more restaurants, bars and nightclubs sit near the centre, and 4 theme parks are within reach where Interlaken has none.
Where they are alike
Neither is a sea-swimming destination. Interlaken has 12 beaches nearby and Verona 2, but neither has a month with water at 21°C or more, so swimming is incidental at both rather than a reason to go.
The two also share a clear seasonal shape, coldest in January and warmest in July, with a real winter at both. And both put day trips within reach, protected land around Interlaken, park space and more attractions around Verona.
Which traveller are you?
Travelling with children, Verona is the clearer choice: 4 theme parks within reach where Interlaken has none, plus far more attractions and park space close to the centre, and a compact core to walk.
For museums and heritage, Verona again: many times as many museums, grouped near the centre, and 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, with bars and nightclubs to fill the evenings.
For walking, water and open country, Interlaken: 12 beaches nearby, 19% of the land around it protected, and summer highs of 22-24°C, in a small town rather than a city.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €248 and €155, are national estimates for the two countries, not measurements of either city. A small resort town and a mid-sized city can each sit far from their own national average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so read them as a starting point rather than a ruling on what either trip costs.
No weather station near Interlaken records sunshine hours, so that side of the weather comparison is simply unmeasured. And the beach count says nothing about a swimming season: neither city has a month with water at 21°C or more.
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.
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).
Interlaken is at its best from June to August, when highs reach 22-24°C, though those are also among its wettest months, at around 62mm. September holds up and is drier, at 38mm.
Verona's strongest stretch is May and June, warm at 24-28°C and ahead of the peak summer heat. September is still warm but is its wettest month, at 85mm, and the rest of autumn stays wet, so early summer is the safer choice.
Getting there
| Flying from | Interlaken | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 35 m €110-163 ZRH · 100 km | 1 h 55 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| ViennaVIE | 1 h 25 m €174-215 1 stop ZRH · 100 km | 1 h 10 m €65-121 VCE · 106 km |
| BerlinBER | 1 h 25 m €140-176 ZRH · 100 km | 1 h 35 m €99-129 VCE · 106 km |
| CataniaCTA | 2 h 10 m no fares BSL · 105 km | 1 h 45 m €40-90 VRN · 10 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 6 h 15 m €232-366 1 stop ZRH · 100 km | 5 h 55 m €366-421 2 stops VCE · 106 km |
| IstanbulIST, SAW | 2 h 45 m €110-133 ZRH · 100 km | 2 h 25 m €172-262 1 stop VRN · 10 km |
| LisbonLIS | 2 h 40 m €188-233 ZRH · 100 km | 2 h 55 m €122-127 VCE · 106 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 8 h 5 m €606-782 1 stop ZRH · 100 km | 8 h 30 m €637-650 VCE · 106 km |
| MaleMLE | 9 h 50 m no fares ZRH · 100 km | 9 h 35 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| CancunCUN | 10 h 55 m no fares ZRH · 100 km | 11 h 10 m no fares VRN · 10 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
| Measure | Interlaken | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | French, German, Italian, Romansh | Italian |
| Currency | Swiss Franc (CHF) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CJ230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 571 m | 59 m |
| Main airport | Zürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations | Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 10 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Interlaken | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 6,123 | 255,588 |
| People per km² | 1,424 | 1,285 |
| Museums within 10 km | 3 | 18 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 5 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 22 | 35 |
Where else could you go?
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