TravelCharika

Amsterdam or Barcelona?

1,241 km apart, in Netherlands and Spain. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Barcelona is the better pick in June and October to April; either in May and July to September.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Amsterdam 6° 11d 8° 10d 10° 10d 13° 8d 17° 9d 20° 10d 21° 10d 22° 10d 19° 11d 15° 12d 10° 12d 8° 13d
Barcelona 12° 5d 14° 4d 15° 7d 17° 6d 20° 5d 25° 4d 27° 2d 28° 5d 24° 9d 21° 8d 16° 7d 14° 4d
Pick BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelonaeitherBarcelonaeithereithereitherBarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

1,241 km as the crow flies, about 2h 26m in the air.Nonstop, about 16 a day · 4 airlines. By train, about 11h 20m · TGV INOUI 9715 · EST 9133. By bus, about 26h 06m · BlaBlaCar Bus · Sprinter. By road, 1,565 km and about 15h 13m.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.