VacationSelector

Valencia or Zurich?

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

Your match

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

ValenciaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
ValenciaZurich
Score670
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km1223
Coast distance3 km632 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 11 points.11
ValenciaZurich
Score7867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,995974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3330
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 1 points.1
ValenciaZurich
Score5556
Museums within 10 km5976
Museums within 2 km of centre2637
Share of museums within 2 km %4449
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
ValenciaZurich
Score7054
Drinking venues within 4 km1,513676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre957553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6382
Nightclubs within 4 km10874
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
ValenciaZurich
Score5337
Protected land share 50 km %1016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 6 points.6
ValenciaZurich
Score4236
Tourist attractions within 2 km128
Park area within 2 km119 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 7 points.7
ValenciaZurich
Score5259
Notable places within 2 km78119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 36 points.36
ValenciaZurich
Score7135
Price level global60.8110.5
Daily budget€122€248
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 31 points.31
ValenciaZurich
Score8453
Monthly daytime high16.8 °C to 30.6 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 70 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months80
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromValenciaZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
BSL · 81 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 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

MeasureValenciaZurich
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation15 m408 m
Main airportValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureValenciaZurich
City population840,792452,421
People per km²6,2425,147
Museums within 10 km4663
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre9278
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.