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Philadelphia or Stuttgart?

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

Your match

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Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Stuttgart are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance13 km476 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score7759
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 4 points.4
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score6056
Museums within 10 km8965
Museums within 2 km of centre4821
Share of museums within 2 km %5432
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score5949
Drinking venues within 4 km930524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km4153
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 31 points.31
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score4980
Protected land share 50 km %1451
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 8 points.8
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score5345
Tourist attractions within 2 km1611
Park area within 2 km75 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score5444
Notable places within 2 km8850
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 17 points.17
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 3 points.3
PhiladelphiaStuttgart
Score6063
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
18 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
PalmaPMI
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
BarcelonaBCN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
DohaDOH
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
6 h 5 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaStuttgart
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
Elevation12 m245 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaStuttgart
City population1,603,797633,484
People per km²4,3393,054
Museums within 10 km5442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7559

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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.