VacationSelector

Munich or Philadelphia?

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

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and year-round weather 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.

MunichPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Munich and Philadelphia are level on 0.
MunichPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km61
Coast distance579 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 4 points.4
MunichPhiladelphia
Score7377
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2801,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3535
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 1 points.1
MunichPhiladelphia
Score6160
Museums within 10 km7489
Museums within 2 km of centre4848
Share of museums within 2 km %6554
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Munich leads by 8 points.8
MunichPhiladelphia
Score6759
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5762
Nightclubs within 4 km10341
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
MunichPhiladelphia
Score4849
Protected land share 50 km %1714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km199 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 26 points.26
MunichPhiladelphia
Score7953
Tourist attractions within 2 km8016
Park area within 2 km199 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 14 points.14
MunichPhiladelphia
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 17 points.17
MunichPhiladelphia
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 4 points.4
MunichPhiladelphia
Score5660
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 mm69 mm to 112 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichPhiladelphia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
10 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMunichPhiladelphia
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation519 m12 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichPhiladelphia
City population1,510,3781,603,797
People per km²4,8614,339
Museums within 10 km7454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8975

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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. 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.