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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Interlaken or Warsaw?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Interlaken leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Warsaw 47: Interlaken leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Warsaw 52: Interlaken leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Warsaw 62: Interlaken leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Warsaw 72: Interlaken leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Warsaw 35: Interlaken leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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
15 hdaylight a day

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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InterlakenWarsaw

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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenWarsaw
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPolish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m118 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenWarsaw
City population6,1231,862,402
People per km²1,4243,601
Museums within 10 km3117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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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.