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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License.

Antwerp or Beijing?

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 Antwerp for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Beijing for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’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. Antwerp 15, Beijing 6: Antwerp leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Beijing 81: Beijing leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Beijing 93: Beijing leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Beijing 58: Beijing leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Beijing 60: Beijing leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Beijing 85: Antwerp leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Beijing 64: Beijing leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Beijing 69: Antwerp leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Beijing 72: Beijing leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Beijing 55: Beijing leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Beijing.

Your match

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

Antwerp
55match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpBeijing
Official languageFrench, German, DutchPutonghua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation7 m43 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBeijing
City population529,24721,893,095
People per km²2,5421,334
Museums within 10 km3883
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km96

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.