VacationSelector

Antwerp or Athens?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AntwerpAthens
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AntwerpAthens
Score048
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km114
Coast distance21 km6 km
Water distance—6 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpAthens
Score7569
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,431
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4225
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpAthens
Score6973
Museums within 10 km41122
Museums within 2 km of centre2778
Share of museums within 2 km %6664
Unesco sites within 50 km92
Nightlife. Athens leads by 22 points.22
AntwerpAthens
Score5981
Drinking venues within 4 km8662,718
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6571,354
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7650
Nightclubs within 4 km73136
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpAthens
Score3445
Protected land share 50 km %75
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8050
Park area within 2 km53 hectares128 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpAthens
Score4671
Tourist attractions within 2 km1468
Park area within 2 km53 hectares128 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 21 points.21
AntwerpAthens
Score5475
Notable places within 2 km88291
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpAthens
Score6074
Price level global76.255.8
Daily budget€180€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 16 points.16
AntwerpAthens
Score5874
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C13.4 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm6 mm to 86 mm
Dry months07
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpAthens
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
2 h 55 m
€134-222
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
1 h 0 m
€103-128
ATH · 20 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 36 km
2 h 25 m
€71-91
ATH · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpAthens
Official languageFrench, German, DutchGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m74 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpAthens
City population529,247643,452
People per km²2,54216,499
Museums within 10 km3888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Distinct cuisines in the centre8082
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.