VacationSelector

Liverpool or Rotterdam?

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, 1 point apart

Liverpool
55
match

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

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

LiverpoolRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 23 points.23
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score6037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3422
Coast distance2 km24 km
Water distance2 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 12 points.12
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score6072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre542862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3246
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 17 points.17
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score4360
Museums within 10 km2341
Museums within 2 km of centre1220
Share of museums within 2 km %5249
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 12 points.12
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score6149
Drinking venues within 4 km977542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6770
Nightclubs within 4 km7940
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 16 points.16
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score5842
Protected land share 50 km %—10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6079
Park area within 2 km81 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score5862
Tourist attractions within 2 km2527
Park area within 2 km81 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 1 points.1
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score5051
Notable places within 2 km6874
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score5458
Price level global84.979.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 2 points.2
LiverpoolRotterdam
Score5456
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolRotterdam
DublinDUB
55 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
50 m
no fares
IOM · 131 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
BridgetownBGI
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureLiverpoolRotterdam
Official languageEnglishDutch
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 or 911
Elevation70 m10 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolRotterdam
City population513,441664,311
People per km²4,5922,080
Museums within 10 km3140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre4977
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.