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Philadelphia or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Strasbourg are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance13 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score7767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3536
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 19 points.19
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score6041
Museums within 10 km8923
Museums within 2 km of centre4814
Share of museums within 2 km %5461
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 23 points.23
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score5936
Drinking venues within 4 km930305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6287
Nightclubs within 4 km4117
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score4954
Protected land share 50 km %1437
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score5338
Tourist attractions within 2 km169
Park area within 2 km75 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score5458
Notable places within 2 km88109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 3 points.3
PhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Score6063
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 mm34 mm to 77 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaStrasbourg
PalmaPMI
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
NiceNCE
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
BostonBOS, PSM
1 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
TampaTPA, PIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
DohaDOH
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaStrasbourg
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m132 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaStrasbourg
City population1,603,797293,771
People per km²4,3393,752
Museums within 10 km5421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7587

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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). 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.