VacationSelector

Vilnius or Zurich?

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

Your match

Vilnius
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

VilniusZurich
Beaches & swimming. Vilnius and Zurich are level on 0.
VilniusZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1623
Coast distance260 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 7 points.7
VilniusZurich
Score6067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre537974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3230
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 15 points.15
VilniusZurich
Score7156
Museums within 10 km7476
Museums within 2 km of centre5437
Share of museums within 2 km %7349
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 8 points.8
VilniusZurich
Score4654
Drinking venues within 4 km464676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8482
Nightclubs within 4 km3974
Nature & day trips. Vilnius leads by 4 points.4
VilniusZurich
Score4137
Protected land share 50 km %1016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Vilnius leads by 15 points.15
VilniusZurich
Score5136
Tourist attractions within 2 km278
Park area within 2 km88 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 6 points.6
VilniusZurich
Score6559
Notable places within 2 km161119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vilnius leads by 41 points.41
VilniusZurich
Score7635
Price level global53.1110.5
Daily budget€125€248
Year-round weather. Vilnius and Zurich are level on 53.
VilniusZurich
Score5353
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 24 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 90 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months00
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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
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. Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVilniusZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€164-214
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 20 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
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

MeasureVilniusZurich
Official languageLithuanianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation98 m408 m
Main airportVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureVilniusZurich
City population581,475452,421
People per km²1,4505,147
Museums within 10 km3063
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5478

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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. 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.