VacationSelector

Lyon or Munich?

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

Your match

Lyon
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and places to eat with your weighting.

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and 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.

LyonMunich
Beaches & swimming. Lyon and Munich are level on 0.
LyonMunich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km266
Coast distance253 km579 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 6 points.6
LyonMunich
Score7973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6911,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4035
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 6 points.6
LyonMunich
Score5561
Museums within 10 km5374
Museums within 2 km of centre2548
Share of museums within 2 km %4765
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Munich leads by 9 points.9
LyonMunich
Score5867
Drinking venues within 4 km8661,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7157
Nightclubs within 4 km47103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 15 points.15
LyonMunich
Score3348
Protected land share 50 km %617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %615
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km120 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 20 points.20
LyonMunich
Score5979
Tourist attractions within 2 km2580
Park area within 2 km120 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 14 points.14
LyonMunich
Score5468
Notable places within 2 km86196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
LyonMunich
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 8 points.8
LyonMunich
Score6456
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
1 h 45 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
9 h 45 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLyonMunich
Official languageFrenchGerman
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
Elevation160 m519 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonMunich
City population519,1271,510,378
People per km²10,8384,861
Museums within 10 km4274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre14889

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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.