VacationSelector

New York or Stuttgart?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

New YorkStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkStuttgart
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance1 km476 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 36 points.36
New YorkStuttgart
Score9559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3829
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 4 points.4
New YorkStuttgart
Score6056
Museums within 10 km11965
Museums within 2 km of centre3121
Share of museums within 2 km %2632
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. New York leads by 40 points.40
New YorkStuttgart
Score8949
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4871
Nightclubs within 4 km19253
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 41 points.41
New YorkStuttgart
Score3980
Protected land share 50 km %451
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 27 points.27
New YorkStuttgart
Score7245
Tourist attractions within 2 km3711
Park area within 2 km134 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. New York leads by 30 points.30
New YorkStuttgart
Score7444
Notable places within 2 km26850
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 17 points.17
New YorkStuttgart
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 5 points.5
New YorkStuttgart
Score5863
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months03
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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
18 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
PalmaPMI
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 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

MeasureNew YorkStuttgart
Official languageGerman
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m245 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkStuttgart
City population8,804,190633,484
People per km²7,2563,054
Museums within 10 km15742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre13259
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.