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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
Rozenhoedkaai and the Belfry, Bruges
BrugesRozenhoedkaai and the Belfry

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Bruges by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antibes or Bruges?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Antibes for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Antibes’s own page.

Choose Bruges for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Bruges’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Antibes 80, Bruges 28: Antibes leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Bruges 56: Bruges leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Bruges 75: Bruges leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Bruges 27: Antibes leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Bruges 40: Antibes leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Bruges 85: Antibes leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Bruges 54: Antibes leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Bruges 78: Bruges leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Bruges 45: Bruges leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Bruges 36: Bruges leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Bruges 40: Bruges leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes and Bruges are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Bruges.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antibes
52match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Bruges
50match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Bruges in July

21 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bruges has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Bruges's sunshine is measured 37 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Bruges: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zeebrugge / Zeemanshaard (15.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesBruges
Official languageFrenchFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesBruges
City population77,637118,509
People per km²2,930840
Museums within 10 km1438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.