VacationSelector

Liverpool or Munich?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Liverpool
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

LiverpoolMunich
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 60 points.60
LiverpoolMunich
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km346
Coast distance2 km579 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 13 points.13
LiverpoolMunich
Score6073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5421,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 18 points.18
LiverpoolMunich
Score4361
Museums within 10 km2374
Museums within 2 km of centre1248
Share of museums within 2 km %5265
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Munich leads by 6 points.6
LiverpoolMunich
Score6167
Drinking venues within 4 km9771,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6757
Nightclubs within 4 km79103
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 10 points.10
LiverpoolMunich
Score5848
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %60100
Park area within 2 km81 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 21 points.21
LiverpoolMunich
Score5879
Tourist attractions within 2 km2580
Park area within 2 km81 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 18 points.18
LiverpoolMunich
Score5068
Notable places within 2 km68196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 6 points.6
LiverpoolMunich
Score5460
Price level global84.975.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Munich leads by 2 points.2
LiverpoolMunich
Score5456
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm46 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolMunich
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 20 m
€164-220
MUC · 29 km
BerlinBER
2 h 0 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€207-225
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLiverpoolMunich
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation70 m519 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolMunich
City population513,4411,510,378
People per km²4,5924,861
Museums within 10 km3174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4989
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.