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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Interlaken or Victoria Falls?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Interlaken leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Victoria Falls 24: Interlaken leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Victoria Falls 12: Victoria Falls leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Victoria Falls 8: Interlaken leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Victoria Falls 94: Interlaken leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Victoria Falls 22: Interlaken leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Victoria Falls 38: Interlaken leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Victoria Falls 45: Interlaken leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Victoria Falls 18: Interlaken leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Victoria Falls 32: Victoria Falls leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Victoria Falls 10: Interlaken leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Victoria Falls 34: Interlaken leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Interlaken
Best match
41match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on prices 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
15 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InterlakenVictoria Falls

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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenVictoria Falls
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112999
Elevation571 m961 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenVictoria Falls
City population6,12333,060
People per km²1,424-
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.