VacationSelector

Strasbourg or Stuttgart?

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

Your match

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on sights concentration 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 Strasbourg if you want a compact trip: the notable places sit close together, walkable in a day, with more restaurants and a wider range of kitchens near the centre.

Choose Stuttgart if you plan to travel out from the city: about half the surrounding land is protected, there are 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, and far more museums, bars and clubs.

Scoreboard

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

StrasbourgStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Strasbourg and Stuttgart are level on 0.
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km93
Coast distance398 km476 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 8 points.8
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score6759
Restaurants within 2 km of centre780575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3629
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 15 points.15
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score4156
Museums within 10 km2365
Museums within 2 km of centre1421
Share of museums within 2 km %6132
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 13 points.13
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score3649
Drinking venues within 4 km305524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre264374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8771
Nightclubs within 4 km1753
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 26 points.26
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score5480
Protected land share 50 km %3751
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3531
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km71 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Stuttgart leads by 7 points.7
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score3845
Tourist attractions within 2 km911
Park area within 2 km71 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 14 points.14
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score5844
Notable places within 2 km10950
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score6260
Price level global73.775.9
Daily budget€160€163
Year-round weather. Strasbourg and Stuttgart are level on 63.
StrasbourgStuttgart
Score6363
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 26.4 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 77 mm33 mm to 79 mm
Dry months33
0255075100

Where they differ

Strasbourg packs about twice as many notable places into walking distance of the centre, so a day on foot covers more, and its museums sit tightly around it. There are also somewhat more restaurants nearby and a wider range of kitchens.

Stuttgart is the better base for getting out: 51% of the surrounding land is protected against 37% around Strasbourg, and 3 UNESCO-listed places sit within day-trip reach against 1. It also has about three times as many museums, twice the places to drink and three times the nightclubs.

Where they are alike

Their weather years run almost in parallel: daytime highs of about 5-26°C across the year, and three months apiece at 40mm of rain or less. Neither offers a mild winter escape, and both peak in the same summer weeks.

Neither is a swimming destination: Strasbourg has 9 beaches nearby against Stuttgart's 3, but neither has a month of sea at 21°C or more. National price levels for France and Germany sit close together, so budgeting differs little.

Which traveller are you?

Someone with a long weekend and no car should take Strasbourg. Twice as many notable places sit within walking distance of the centre, the museums cluster around it, and there are more restaurants and a wider spread of kitchens.

A traveller who wants to be out of the city most days should take Stuttgart: 51% of the surrounding land is protected, and 3 UNESCO-listed places lie within day-trip reach against Strasbourg's 1.

Families and anyone planning late nights lean to Stuttgart too, with 2 theme parks within reach against 1, somewhat more attractions near the centre, and roughly twice the places to drink. Park space is similar in both.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget, €160 for France and €163 for Germany, is a national price level for restaurants and hotels, not a measurement of either city. A city can sit further from its own country's average than the gap between these two figures, so near-identical numbers say nothing about which trip costs more.

The best months to visit are also the wettest: May to July brings 68-79mm in both, so the warmest weeks are not the driest. And the beaches counted nearby are inland water: neither city has a month of sea at 21°C or more.

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
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Strasbourg
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
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
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. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Both cities are at their best from June to August, at 24-26°C. Strasbourg is the drier of the two in early summer, 68-72mm in June and July against Stuttgart's 77-79mm, and it holds 22°C into September.

Stuttgart edges ahead in spring and early autumn: April is drier at 37mm against 42mm, and September brings 49mm against 55mm. May reaches 21°C in both. Winter is the weak spot either way, 5-7°C in January and February with 33-35mm.

Getting there

Flying fromStrasbourgStuttgart
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 146 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
3 h 15 m
€194-322
1 stop
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 10 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureStrasbourgStuttgart
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation132 m245 m
Main airportStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureStrasbourgStuttgart
City population293,771633,484
People per km²3,7523,054
Museums within 10 km2142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8759

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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.