VacationSelector

Kuala Lumpur or Strasbourg?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration 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.

Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Kuala Lumpur leads by 40 points.40
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km09
Coast distance38 km398 km
Water distance36 km—
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 11 points.11
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score7867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,358780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2836
Museums & heritage. Kuala Lumpur leads by 10 points.10
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score5141
Museums within 10 km4123
Museums within 2 km of centre2614
Share of museums within 2 km %6361
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 31 points.31
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score6736
Drinking venues within 4 km1,308305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre735264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5687
Nightclubs within 4 km12617
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 15 points.15
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score6954
Protected land share 50 km %2837
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km70 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 22 points.22
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score6038
Tourist attractions within 2 km269
Park area within 2 km70 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 7 points.7
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score5158
Notable places within 2 km75109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 30 points.30
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score9262
Price level global30.673.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 11 points.11
Kuala LumpurStrasbourg
Score5263
Monthly daytime high31.9 °C to 33.7 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall145 mm to 360 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
No sunshine record
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKuala LumpurStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 5 m
€143-157
KUL · 45 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 0 m
€89-104
KUL · 45 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 10 m
€203-227
KUL · 45 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 40 m
€193-209
KUL · 45 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 0 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ColomboCMB
3 h 35 m
€239-270
KUL · 45 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
JeddahJED
9 h 0 m
€422-558
KUL · 45 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 5 m
€251-273
KUL · 45 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
MaleMLE
4 h 20 m
€360-383
1 stop
KUL · 45 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureKuala LumpurStrasbourg
Official languageMalayFrench
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation50 m132 m
Main airportKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKuala LumpurStrasbourg
City population9,000,280293,771
People per km²36,9323,752
Museums within 10 km2521
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6987
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.