VacationSelector

Antwerp or Fort Lauderdale?

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

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score084
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km17
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 30 points.30
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score7545
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4218
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 49 points.49
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score6920
Museums within 10 km4114
Museums within 2 km of centre276
Share of museums within 2 km %6643
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score5934
Drinking venues within 4 km866259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7656
Nightclubs within 4 km7318
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 47 points.47
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score3481
Protected land share 50 km %720
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8051
Park area within 2 km53 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 27 points.27
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score4619
Tourist attractions within 2 km142
Park area within 2 km53 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 54 points.54
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score540
Notable places within 2 km882
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 18 points.18
AntwerpFort Lauderdale
Score5876
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm55 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpFort Lauderdale
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 123 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
CuracaoCUR
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 36 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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

MeasureAntwerpFort Lauderdale
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m11 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpFort Lauderdale
City population529,247182,760
People per km²2,5421,829
Museums within 10 km386
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8025
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.