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Madrid or Paris?

1,040 km apart, in Spain and France. 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.

Madrid is the better pick in May to June and September to March; Paris in April and July to August.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Madrid 10° 6d 14° 4d 16° 9d 20° 8d 24° 5d 30° 4d 34° 1d 34° 1d 27° 5d 22° 7d 15° 6d 11° 5d
Paris 7° 10d 10° 9d 13° 10d 17° 6d 20° 10d 25° 9d 26° 7d 26° 6d 22° 7d 17° 10d 11° 9d 9° 11d
Paris, fare from Bengaluru ———————————₹61,216
Pick MadridMadridMadridParisMadridMadridParisParisMadridMadridMadridMadrid

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. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

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

1,040 km as the crow flies, about 2h 11m in the air.By train, about 10h 59m · TGV INOUI 9706 · AVE INT. By road, 1,260 km and about 12h 03m.

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.