VacationSelector

Lyon or Nuremberg?

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.

Nuremberg
48
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.

LyonNuremberg
Beaches & swimming. Lyon and Nuremberg are level on 0.
LyonNuremberg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km266
Coast distance253 km430 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 15 points.15
LyonNuremberg
Score7964
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,691700
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4033
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 3 points.3
LyonNuremberg
Score5552
Museums within 10 km5353
Museums within 2 km of centre2529
Share of museums within 2 km %4755
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 10 points.10
LyonNuremberg
Score5848
Drinking venues within 4 km866523
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre611427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7182
Nightclubs within 4 km4736
Nature & day trips. Nuremberg leads by 16 points.16
LyonNuremberg
Score3349
Protected land share 50 km %642
Landscape blanket share 50 km %641
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km120 hectares31 hectares
Good for families. Lyon and Nuremberg are level on 59.
LyonNuremberg
Score5959
Tourist attractions within 2 km2559
Park area within 2 km120 hectares31 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 10 points.10
LyonNuremberg
Score5444
Notable places within 2 km8650
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
LyonNuremberg
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 4 points.4
LyonNuremberg
Score6460
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C3.5 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 mm33 mm to 77 mm
Dry months04
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
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Nuremberg
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
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonNuremberg
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
2 h 35 m
€139-243
NUE · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 25 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€206-349
1 stop
NUE · 5 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
TunisTUN
1 h 55 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 133 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

MeasureLyonNuremberg
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 m209 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonNuremberg
City population519,127529,508
People per km²10,8382,839
Museums within 10 km4250
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre14871

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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.