VacationSelector

Munich or York?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

MunichYork
Beaches & swimming. Munich and York are level on 0.
MunichYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km62
Coast distance579 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Munich leads by 19 points.19
MunichYork
Score7354
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3531
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 15 points.15
MunichYork
Score6146
Museums within 10 km7418
Museums within 2 km of centre4816
Share of museums within 2 km %6589
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Munich leads by 24 points.24
MunichYork
Score6743
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5778
Nightclubs within 4 km10314
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 15 points.15
MunichYork
Score4833
Protected land share 50 km %1717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1516
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km199 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 36 points.36
MunichYork
Score7943
Tourist attractions within 2 km8013
Park area within 2 km199 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 29 points.29
MunichYork
Score6839
Notable places within 2 km19637
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 6 points.6
MunichYork
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Munich and York are level on 56.
MunichYork
Score5656
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
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. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichYork
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 20 m
€164-220
MUC · 29 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AgadirAGA
3 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureMunichYork
Official languageGermanEnglish
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
Elevation519 m25 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichYork
City population1,510,378208,400
People per km²4,861766
Museums within 10 km7424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8954

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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.