VacationSelector

Lyon or Maastricht?

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

Your match

Lyon
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

LyonMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Lyon and Maastricht are level on 0.
LyonMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km266
Coast distance253 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 31 points.31
LyonMaastricht
Score7948
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,691338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4022
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
LyonMaastricht
Score5553
Museums within 10 km5323
Museums within 2 km of centre2513
Share of museums within 2 km %4757
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 28 points.28
LyonMaastricht
Score5830
Drinking venues within 4 km866223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7182
Nightclubs within 4 km4713
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
LyonMaastricht
Score3337
Protected land share 50 km %619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %611
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km120 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 13 points.13
LyonMaastricht
Score5946
Tourist attractions within 2 km2515
Park area within 2 km120 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 18 points.18
LyonMaastricht
Score5436
Notable places within 2 km8632
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 4 points.4
LyonMaastricht
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
LyonMaastricht
Score6459
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 mm41 mm to 84 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2
Maastricht
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 20 m
€109-165
LYS · 20 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
FaroFAO
2 h 25 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 55 m
€105-126
LYS · 20 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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 2026-10 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

MeasureLyonMaastricht
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation160 m49 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonMaastricht
City population519,127120,227
People per km²10,8382,000
Museums within 10 km4221
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre14833

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.