VacationSelector

Strasbourg or Verona?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on good for families 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 eating is the point of the trip: about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a wider range of kitchens, with protected countryside on the doorstep, 37% of the surrounding land.

Choose Verona if you are travelling with children: attractions cluster near the centre, there are 4 theme parks within reach, and summers run warmer.

Scoreboard

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

StrasbourgVerona
Beaches & swimming. Strasbourg and Verona are level on 0.
StrasbourgVerona
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km92
Coast distance398 km104 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 24 points.24
StrasbourgVerona
Score6743
Restaurants within 2 km of centre780477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3613
Museums & heritage. Verona leads by 15 points.15
StrasbourgVerona
Score4156
Museums within 10 km2320
Museums within 2 km of centre1419
Share of museums within 2 km %6195
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Verona leads by 4 points.4
StrasbourgVerona
Score3640
Drinking venues within 4 km305416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre264269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8765
Nightclubs within 4 km179
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 18 points.18
StrasbourgVerona
Score5436
Protected land share 50 km %379
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km71 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 31 points.31
StrasbourgVerona
Score3869
Tourist attractions within 2 km962
Park area within 2 km71 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
StrasbourgVerona
Score5853
Notable places within 2 km10982
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Verona leads by 6 points.6
StrasbourgVerona
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 2 points.2
StrasbourgVerona
Score6365
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 26.4 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 77 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months31
0255075100

Where they differ

Strasbourg has about twice as many restaurants near the centre as Verona, and a much wider spread of kitchens to choose between. Its surroundings are greener too: 37% of the land around the city is protected against 9% around Verona, and there is more park space near the centre.

Verona is the stronger city for families: many times as many tourist attractions sit close to the centre, and there are 4 theme parks within reach against Strasbourg's 1, so days out with children need less planning.

Where they are alike

Neither city is a swimming destination. Strasbourg has 9 beaches nearby and Verona 2, but neither has a month with water at 21°C or more, so a swim is an inland, summer-only option rather than part of the trip.

Both are compact: notable places sit within walking distance of the centre, and most of the drinking and dancing is central too, without either being a late-night city. The national price levels behind the two budget estimates are close.

Which traveller are you?

A couple planning their days around meals and walking should take Strasbourg: roughly twice the restaurant choice near the centre, a wider range of kitchens, and the notable places all within walking distance.

Families with school-age children will find Verona easier: attractions are concentrated near the centre in far greater number, and 4 theme parks lie within reach against Strasbourg's 1, though Strasbourg has more park space near the centre.

Anyone whose day trips make the holiday should split by type: 37% of the land around Strasbourg is protected, against 9% around Verona, while Verona puts 5 UNESCO-listed places within reach against Strasbourg's 1.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €155-160, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels rather than measurements of Strasbourg or Verona. A heavily visited city can sit well above its own country's average, by more than the gap between these two figures, so nothing here shows one city costing more than the other.

Strasbourg counts 9 beaches nearby, but neither city has a month with water at 21°C or more, so swimming is an inland summer extra rather than a reason to go. Warm does not mean dry either: Verona's warm September is also its wettest month, at 85mm.

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
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Verona
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Strasbourg is at its best from June to August, with highs of 24-26°C; May is its wettest month at 77mm, while January and February are its driest, near 35mm, and cold at 5-6°C.

Verona peaks a little earlier, in May and June, at 24-28°C, and September still reaches 25°C but is its wettest month at 85mm. July and August sit at 30°C, warm for walking a city all day; October and November stay wet, at 77-78mm.

Getting there

Flying fromStrasbourgVerona
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
€174-248
STR · 109 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 10 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
MaleMLE
9 h 50 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
CancunCUN
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureStrasbourgVerona
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation132 m59 m
Main airportStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureStrasbourgVerona
City population293,771255,588
People per km²3,7521,285
Museums within 10 km2118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8735

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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.