VacationSelector

Nuremberg or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Nuremberg
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

NurembergRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
NurembergRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km622
Coast distance430 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 8 points.8
NurembergRotterdam
Score6472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre700862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3346
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 8 points.8
NurembergRotterdam
Score5260
Museums within 10 km5341
Museums within 2 km of centre2920
Share of museums within 2 km %5549
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 1 points.1
NurembergRotterdam
Score4849
Drinking venues within 4 km523542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8270
Nightclubs within 4 km3640
Nature & day trips. Nuremberg leads by 7 points.7
NurembergRotterdam
Score4942
Protected land share 50 km %4210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %410
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km31 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 3 points.3
NurembergRotterdam
Score5962
Tourist attractions within 2 km5927
Park area within 2 km31 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 7 points.7
NurembergRotterdam
Score4451
Notable places within 2 km5074
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nuremberg leads by 2 points.2
NurembergRotterdam
Score6058
Price level global75.979.2
Daily budget€163€181
Year-round weather. Nuremberg leads by 4 points.4
NurembergRotterdam
Score6056
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 25.2 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 77 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months40
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
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Nuremberg
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Nuremberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNurembergRotterdam
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
€206-349
1 stop
NUE · 5 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
€128-169
MUC · 133 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 133 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€237-292
1 stop
MUC · 133 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RTM · 5 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 133 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureNurembergRotterdam
Official languageGermanDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation209 m10 m
Main airportNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNurembergRotterdam
City population529,508664,311
People per km²2,8392,080
Museums within 10 km5040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7177
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.