Stuttgart or Verona?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.
Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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 Stuttgart if you want countryside within reach: 51% of the surrounding land is protected, and the eating out covers a wider range of kitchens.
Choose Verona if you want a compact centre you can walk, with roughly twice as many notable places within walking distance, plus attractions near the centre and 4 theme parks within reach that suit children.
Scoreboard
Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.
Beaches & swimming. Stuttgart and Verona are level on 0.
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 3 | 2 |
| Coast distance | 476 km | 104 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Stuttgart leads by 16 points.16
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 59 | 43 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 575 | 477 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 29 | 13 |
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart and Verona are level on 56.
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 56 | 56 |
| Museums within 10 km | 65 | 20 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 21 | 19 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 32 | 95 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 3 | 5 |
Nightlife. Stuttgart leads by 9 points.9
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 49 | 40 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 524 | 416 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 374 | 269 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 71 | 65 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 53 | 9 |
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 44 points.44
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 80 | 36 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 51 | 9 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 31 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 78 hectares | 59 hectares |
Good for families. Verona leads by 24 points.24
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 45 | 69 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 11 | 62 |
| Park area within 2 km | 78 hectares | 59 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 2 | 4 |
Sights concentration. Verona leads by 9 points.9
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 44 | 53 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 50 | 82 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Verona leads by 8 points.8
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 60 | 68 |
| Price level global | 75.9 | 64.9 |
| Daily budget | €163 | €155 |
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 2 points.2
| Stuttgart | Verona | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 63 | 65 |
| Monthly daytime high | 5.6 °C to 25.9 °C | 6.8 °C to 30.3 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 33 mm to 79 mm | 38 mm to 85 mm |
| Dry months | 3 | 1 |
Where they differ
Stuttgart is the better base for getting out of the city: 51% of the surrounding land is protected against 9% around Verona, and there is more park space near the centre. It also has somewhat more restaurants near the centre and a much wider spread of kitchens.
Verona is the stronger choice with children: many times as many tourist attractions near the centre, and 4 theme parks within reach against Stuttgart's 2. Its notable places are also about twice as concentrated within walking distance of the centre.
Where they are alike
Heritage is where they land closest. Stuttgart has about three times as many museums; Verona's sit more tightly around the centre, and it has 5 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Stuttgart's 3. Either way, several days of indoor history.
Neither is a place for sea swimming, and in both the drinking places cluster near the centre. The national daily budgets behind the two countries are close as well, at €163 and €155.
Which traveller are you?
Families are better served in Verona: many times as many tourist attractions sit near the centre, and there are 4 theme parks within reach against Stuttgart's 2, though Stuttgart has more park space close in.
Walkers and anyone planning day trips should take Stuttgart, where 51% of the surrounding land is protected and the parks near the centre give an easy start before heading further out.
Someone travelling for food and late evenings should also choose Stuttgart, with a much wider range of kitchens near the centre and many times as many nightclubs, though Verona's centre is the more walkable one.
What the numbers don't tell you
The daily budget figures, €163 and €155, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels, not measurements of Stuttgart or Verona. Neither city is necessarily typical of its country, and the distance between a heavily visited city and its national average can be wider than the gap between the two figures.
The warmest months are not the driest. Verona's warmth stretches into early autumn, but that is when it rains most, at 85mm, and Stuttgart's best summer weeks carry its heaviest rain too. Stuttgart's outdoor advantage also sits largely beyond the city, so reaching it means transport.
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.
Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).
Stuttgart is at its best in high summer, June to August, when highs sit at 24-26°C and the long evenings suit the countryside around it. Those are also its wettest months, at 63-79mm, so expect showers; the drier stretch falls in late winter and early spring, when it is too cold for much outdoors.
Verona holds warmth longer, reaching 30°C in midsummer and still 25°C in September, though September is also its wettest month, at 85mm. May, at 24°C, is the steadier choice if rain matters.
Getting there
| Flying from | Stuttgart | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| IstanbulIST, SAW | 2 h 40 m €139-291 STR · 10 km | 2 h 25 m €172-262 1 stop VRN · 10 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 35 m no fares STR · 10 km | 1 h 55 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| ViennaVIE | 1 h 20 m €174-248 STR · 10 km | 1 h 10 m €65-121 VCE · 106 km |
| CataniaCTA | 2 h 15 m no fares STR · 10 km | 1 h 45 m €40-90 VRN · 10 km |
| BerlinBER | 1 h 15 m €197-289 1 stop STR · 10 km | 1 h 35 m €99-129 VCE · 106 km |
| PalmaPMI | 2 h 0 m no fares STR · 10 km | 1 h 45 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 7 h 55 m €537-713 FRA · 146 km | 8 h 30 m €637-650 VCE · 106 km |
| Sharm el SheikhSSH | 4 h 30 m no fares FRA · 146 km | 4 h 0 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| MaleMLE | 9 h 55 m no fares FRA · 146 km | 9 h 35 m no fares VRN · 10 km |
| CancunCUN | 10 h 45 m no fares FRA · 146 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
| Measure | Stuttgart | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | German | Italian |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CF230 V, 50 Hz | CFL230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 245 m | 59 m |
| Main airport | Stuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations | Verona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 12 days | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Stuttgart | Verona |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 633,484 | 255,588 |
| People per km² | 3,054 | 1,285 |
| Museums within 10 km | 42 | 18 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 3 | 5 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 59 | 35 |
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