VacationSelector

Malaga or York?

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

Your match

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

MalagaYork
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
MalagaYork
Score660
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km212
Coast distance0 km50 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 15 points.15
MalagaYork
Score6954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,002361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3431
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 7 points.7
MalagaYork
Score5346
Museums within 10 km4018
Museums within 2 km of centre3516
Share of museums within 2 km %8889
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 11 points.11
MalagaYork
Score5443
Drinking venues within 4 km715450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6878
Nightclubs within 4 km4514
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 10 points.10
MalagaYork
Score4333
Protected land share 50 km %717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %6395
Park area within 2 km85 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 10 points.10
MalagaYork
Score5343
Tourist attractions within 2 km3313
Park area within 2 km85 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. York leads by 2 points.2
MalagaYork
Score3739
Notable places within 2 km3337
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
MalagaYork
Score7154
Price level global60.884.9
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 26 points.26
MalagaYork
Score8256
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months51
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 30 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureMalagaYork
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation18 m25 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaYork
City population599,063208,400
People per km²1,517766
Museums within 10 km3224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6554
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.