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Milan or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Milan if you want museums, nightlife and family attractions in quantity, with the sights packed close enough to walk between them, and the warmer end of the year, up to 29°C in July.

Choose Strasbourg if you prefer a smaller city with a wider spread of kitchens, more protected land around it and drier winter and spring months, and you do not need late nights.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MilanStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Milan and Strasbourg are level on 0.
MilanStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance120 km398 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Milan leads by 3 points.3
MilanStrasbourg
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,991780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2036
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 33 points.33
MilanStrasbourg
Score7441
Museums within 10 km8723
Museums within 2 km of centre5514
Share of museums within 2 km %6361
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Milan leads by 39 points.39
MilanStrasbourg
Score7536
Drinking venues within 4 km2,215305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4387
Nightclubs within 4 km7017
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 11 points.11
MilanStrasbourg
Score6554
Protected land share 50 km %3037
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1135
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km102 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 39 points.39
MilanStrasbourg
Score7738
Tourist attractions within 2 km769
Park area within 2 km102 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 16 points.16
MilanStrasbourg
Score7458
Notable places within 2 km266109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 6 points.6
MilanStrasbourg
Score6862
Price level global64.973.7
Daily budget€155€160
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 1 points.1
MilanStrasbourg
Score6463
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

Where they differ

Milan has far more museums than Strasbourg and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 1, plus many times more places to drink and to dance. It also has far more tourist attractions near the centre, 5 theme parks within reach against 1, and roughly twice as many notable places within walking distance.

Strasbourg concentrates what it has: most of its drinking venues sit near the centre, its kitchens cover a wider range, and 37% of the surrounding land is protected against 30% around Milan.

Where they are alike

Neither is a place to swim. Strasbourg has 9 beaches within reach and Milan 4, but neither has a month with water at 21°C or more.

Both have a similar shape of year, Milan running 7-29°C across the months against Strasbourg's 5-26°C, and both are strong for eating out in different ways: Milan on the number of restaurants near the centre, Strasbourg on the range of kitchens. The two national price levels also sit close together.

Which traveller are you?

Museum-minded travellers should take Milan: far more museums than Strasbourg, and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 1, with the notable sights close enough together to cover on foot.

Families are better served in Milan too, with many more tourist attractions near the centre, more park space, and 5 theme parks within reach against Strasbourg's 1.

Anyone after quiet days outdoors and varied food will prefer Strasbourg, where 37% of the surrounding land is protected, the kitchens span a wider range, and the drinking places that exist are mostly central.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €155 and €160, are national estimates for Italy and France, not measurements of Milan or Strasbourg. A large city can sit well above its own country's average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so nothing here tells you which trip costs more.

Strasbourg has more beaches within reach than Milan, but neither city registers as a swimming destination and neither has a month with water at 21°C or more. Milan's warmer year also comes with rain: it has no month as dry as Strasbourg's driest three.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Milan holds the warmer summer, 26-29°C from June to August, and stays mild into September. Its autumn is the drawback, with 113-127mm of rain a month from September through November.

Strasbourg's summer runs slightly cooler, at 24-26°C, but the first half of its year is drier: 34-42mm a month from January to April, where Milan gets more in every one of those months, and Milan has no month at 40mm or less while Strasbourg has three.

Getting there

Flying fromMilanStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 45 m
€31-93
BGY · 46 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 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

MeasureMilanStrasbourg
Official languageItalianFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation138 m132 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanStrasbourg
City population1,354,196293,771
People per km²7,4533,752
Museums within 10 km8721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre7987

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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.