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Milan or Stuttgart?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

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 the city itself: sights, restaurants and bars packed close together, plenty aimed at children, and warmer summers reaching 29°C in July.

Choose Stuttgart if what surrounds the city matters more than its centre. 51% of the land around it is protected, its centre is quieter and more compact, and its spring and winter months are noticeably drier.

Scoreboard

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

MilanStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Milan and Stuttgart are level on 0.
MilanStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km43
Coast distance120 km476 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Milan leads by 11 points.11
MilanStuttgart
Score7059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,991575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2029
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 18 points.18
MilanStuttgart
Score7456
Museums within 10 km8765
Museums within 2 km of centre5521
Share of museums within 2 km %6332
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Milan leads by 26 points.26
MilanStuttgart
Score7549
Drinking venues within 4 km2,215524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4371
Nightclubs within 4 km7053
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 15 points.15
MilanStuttgart
Score6580
Protected land share 50 km %3051
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1131
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km102 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 32 points.32
MilanStuttgart
Score7745
Tourist attractions within 2 km7611
Park area within 2 km102 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 30 points.30
MilanStuttgart
Score7444
Notable places within 2 km26650
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 8 points.8
MilanStuttgart
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 1 points.1
MilanStuttgart
Score6463
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

Where they differ

Milan packs many times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, and roughly three times as many restaurants, so days work on foot. Drinking venues outnumber Stuttgart's many times over, and families get far more attractions near the centre plus 5 theme parks within reach against Stuttgart's 2.

Stuttgart's strength is what surrounds it: 51% of the land around the city is protected against 30% around Milan. Its bars and clubs are fewer but mostly central, and its kitchens cover a somewhat wider range.

Where they are alike

Neither is a swimming destination. Milan counts 4 beaches within reach and Stuttgart 3, but neither has a month with sea at 21°C or more, so a trip to either is planned around the city rather than the water.

Their years also have a similar shape, cold winters around 6-7°C and summers of 26-29°C, and the national price levels behind them sit close together.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children, Milan is the stronger base, with far more attractions and park space near the centre and 5 theme parks within reach against Stuttgart's 2.

Walkers and anyone planning days out of the city should take Stuttgart, where 51% of the surrounding land is protected against 30% around Milan, and the trips out matter more than the centre.

For museums, eating and late nights on foot, Milan: more museums clustered tightly around the centre, 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 3, and many times the number of bars.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €155 and €163, are national estimates for Italy and Germany, price levels for restaurants and hotels rather than measurements of Milan or Stuttgart. A large city can sit well above its own country's average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so treat them as background, not as a reason to pick one.

Milan's warmer year is not a drier one: its wettest months, 102-127mm, fall in spring and autumn when many visitors travel. The counts that favour Milan are counts near the centre; stay further out and the advantage thins.

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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M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
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
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Milan is at its warmest from June to August, at 26-29°C, and July is the driest month of that run at 57mm. September stays warm, but the autumn rain arrives with it.

Stuttgart is the better pick in spring: April is 16°C with 37mm of rain where Milan gets 78mm, and the months either side are drier too. Its own peak, 26°C in high summer, comes with the wettest weeks of its year.

Getting there

Flying fromMilanStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 15 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 10 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

MeasureMilanStuttgart
Official languageItalianGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation138 m245 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanStuttgart
City population1,354,196633,484
People per km²7,4533,054
Museums within 10 km8742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre7959

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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.