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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
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Durban

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License.

Antwerp or Durban?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Durban for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Durban’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, Durban 80: Durban leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Durban 60: Antwerp leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Durban 38: Antwerp leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Durban 40: Antwerp leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Durban 68: Durban leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Durban 38: Antwerp leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Durban 60: Antwerp leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Durban 20: Antwerp leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Durban 42: Antwerp leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Durban 72: Durban leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Durban 40: Antwerp leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp and Durban are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Durban.

Your match

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

Antwerp
Best match
55match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Durban
49match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 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). Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpDurban
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m22 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpDurban
City population529,247595,061
People per km²2,5422,634
Museums within 10 km381
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.