VacationSelector

Antwerp or Barcelona?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

AntwerpBarcelona
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 65 points.65
AntwerpBarcelona
Score065
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance21 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 15 points.15
AntwerpBarcelona
Score7590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1643,786
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4241
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpBarcelona
Score6968
Museums within 10 km41105
Museums within 2 km of centre2749
Share of museums within 2 km %6647
Unesco sites within 50 km93
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 23 points.23
AntwerpBarcelona
Score5982
Drinking venues within 4 km8662,711
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6571,641
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7661
Nightclubs within 4 km73245
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 16 points.16
AntwerpBarcelona
Score3450
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8051
Park area within 2 km53 hectares49 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpBarcelona
Score4665
Tourist attractions within 2 km1460
Park area within 2 km53 hectares49 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpBarcelona
Score5473
Notable places within 2 km88258
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpBarcelona
Score6071
Price level global76.260.8
Daily budget€180€122
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 20 points.20
AntwerpBarcelona
Score5878
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C13.9 °C to 28.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm27 mm to 83 mm
Dry months05
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
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). Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpBarcelona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
€114-118
BCN · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 36 km
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 36 km
1 h 50 m
€46-94
BCN · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
14 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
13 h 0 m
€1,610-1626
BCN · 13 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

MeasureAntwerpBarcelona
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m9 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBarcelona
City population529,2471,731,649
People per km²2,54217,094
Museums within 10 km3895
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km93
Distinct cuisines in the centre80128
Swim season, months above 21 °C–3 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.