VacationSelector

Nuremberg or Stuttgart?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Stuttgart
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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 Nuremberg if you want your days on foot in town: more restaurants near the centre and many more attractions close in, which makes it the easier city with children.

Choose Stuttgart if you plan to get out: more protected countryside around it, and 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Nuremberg's 1. It also runs warmer year round.

Scoreboard

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

NurembergStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Nuremberg and Stuttgart are level on 0.
NurembergStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km63
Coast distance430 km476 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Nuremberg leads by 5 points.5
NurembergStuttgart
Score6459
Restaurants within 2 km of centre700575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3329
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 4 points.4
NurembergStuttgart
Score5256
Museums within 10 km5365
Museums within 2 km of centre2921
Share of museums within 2 km %5532
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 1 points.1
NurembergStuttgart
Score4849
Drinking venues within 4 km523524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8271
Nightclubs within 4 km3653
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 31 points.31
NurembergStuttgart
Score4980
Protected land share 50 km %4251
Landscape blanket share 50 km %4131
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km31 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Nuremberg leads by 14 points.14
NurembergStuttgart
Score5945
Tourist attractions within 2 km5911
Park area within 2 km31 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Nuremberg and Stuttgart are level on 44.
NurembergStuttgart
Score4444
Notable places within 2 km5050
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nuremberg and Stuttgart are level on 60.
NurembergStuttgart
Score6060
Price level global75.975.9
Daily budget€163€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 3 points.3
NurembergStuttgart
Score6063
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 25.2 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 77 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months43
0255075100

Where they differ

Nuremberg puts more within walking reach: somewhat more restaurants near the centre, and many times as many tourist attractions close in, which makes the difference on a day out with children. Both have 2 theme parks within reach.

Stuttgart is the better base for getting out of town. 51% of the land around it is protected against 42% around Nuremberg, and it has about three times as much park space near the centre. It also has somewhat more museums and 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Nuremberg's 1.

Where they are alike

The two are level on what sits within walking distance of the centre: about the same number of notable places close in, so a day on foot covers comparable ground in either.

Nights out are alike, with a similar number of drinking places, most of them central, and their museum holdings are close. Neither is a swimming destination: no month reaches sea at 21°C, and summers top out at 25-26°C.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Nuremberg. It has many times as many tourist attractions near the centre, so days need less planning, though both cities have 2 theme parks within reach and Stuttgart offers more parkland for running about.

Walkers and day-trippers: Stuttgart. 51% of the land around it is protected against 42% around Nuremberg, and 3 UNESCO-listed places sit within day-trip reach against Nuremberg's 1.

Eating and drinking: Nuremberg edges it on restaurants near the centre, though the two are level on places to drink. If clubs matter, Stuttgart has somewhat more, and both keep them central.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information: the price level is national, identical for both by construction, so neither is the cheaper trip on this evidence. The €163 daily budget is a national estimate rather than a measurement of either city.

The strongest months are also the wettest: July brings 77-79mm across the two, so warm does not mean dry. And Stuttgart's outdoor advantage rests on protected land around the city rather than in it, which means transport and time; Nuremberg's family strength is attractions near the centre, a different kind of day.

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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F
M
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J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Nuremberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Nuremberg peaks from June to August at 23-25°C, and it is the drier of the two in late spring: May and June bring 61-64mm against Stuttgart's 72-77mm. July is its wettest at 77mm, so early summer is the steadier bet.

Stuttgart is the warmer pick either side of summer, reaching 16°C in October when Nuremberg is cooler, and it stays milder through winter. Its late spring is the wetter of the two, so September, at 21°C, is its steadiest month.

Getting there

Flying fromNurembergStuttgart
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
€206-349
1 stop
NUE · 5 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 35 m
€139-243
NUE · 5 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 146 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 10 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
12 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 2026-09 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

MeasureNurembergStuttgart
Official languageGermanGerman
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
Elevation209 m245 m
Main airportNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNurembergStuttgart
City population529,508633,484
People per km²2,8393,054
Museums within 10 km5042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7159

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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.