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Antwerp or Cusco?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
Antwerp

Photo: Norbert Jakab, Pexels License

The Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía, Cusco
Cusco

Photo: Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on families and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Cusco
49
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

AntwerpCusco
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp leads by 12 points.12
Food & drink. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
Culture & sights. Cusco leads by 8 points.8
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 14 points.14
Nature & outdoors. Cusco leads by 53 points.53
Day trips. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 52 points.52
Getting around. Antwerp leads by 27 points.27
Shopping & style. Antwerp leads by 18 points.18
Affordability. Cusco leads by 35 points.35
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp leads by 28 points.28
Wellness & relaxation. Cusco leads by 3 points.3
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Cusco.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyAntwerpCusco
Daytime high23 °C20 °C
Night-time low15 °C1 °C
Rainfall in the month80 mm5 mm
Sunshine7 hours a dayNo figure
Daylight16 hours a day11 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Cusco
20
19
20
20
21
21
20
21
21
21
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Cusco
159
133
106
36
7
3
5
6
17
50
78
127
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Cusco
13
13
12
12
12
11
11
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Cusco
No sunshine record

Where the figures come from

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

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

Cusco's station stands 151 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Cusco: 1991-2020 normals, Cuzco (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpCusco
LimaLIM
13 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
1 h 20 m
€95-160
CUZ · 5 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
CUZ · 5 km
BogotaBOG
11 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 5 m
€424-527
1 stop
CUZ · 5 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureAntwerpCusco
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation7 m3,399 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre190 non-stop destinationsAlejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ)5 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpCusco
City population529,247428,450
People per km²2,542-
Museums within 10 km3811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92

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Sources

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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.