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Frankfurt or Munich?

299 km apart, both in Germany. 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.

Frankfurt is the better pick in May and August; either in February to April, June to July and September to October. November to January are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Frankfurt 5° 10d 8° 9d 12° 9d 16° 7d 21° 8d 26° 8d 27° 8d 27° 8d 22° 8d 16° 9d 9° 10d 6° 11d
Munich 4° 9d 7° 8d 11° 9d 15° 8d 18° 12d 24° 10d 24° 11d 25° 11d 20° 10d 15° 8d 8° 9d 5° 11d
Pick neithereithereithereitherFrankfurteithereitherFrankfurteithereitherneitherneither

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

Both are in Germany, so the currency, the plugs and the travel advice are the same: type C and F plugs, driving on the right, paying in the Q4916. Everything for Germany.

Between them

299 km as the crow flies, about 1h 17m in the air.

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.