Barcelona or London?

1,148 km apart, in Spain and United Kingdom. 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 Spain · best Jun, Jul, Aug
• London United Kingdom · best May, Jun, Aug

Month by month

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

• Cost of living — Barcelona: moderate, about 65% of the United States; London: expensive, about 89% of the United States.
• Currency — Barcelona: Q4916; London: Pound sterling.
• Plugs — Barcelona: type C and F, 230 V; London: type G, 230 V.
• Driving — Barcelona: on the right; London: on the left.
• Travel advice — Barcelona: no advice against travel; London: —.

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

1,148 km as the crow flies, about 2h 19m in the air.By train, about 10h 38m · TGV INOUI 9708 · EST 9047. By bus, about 11h 46m · FlixBus N728 · EST 9051. By road, 1,518 km and about 16h 49m.

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.

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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.