VacationSelector

Antwerp or Lucerne?

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 nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AntwerpLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Lucerne are level on 0.
AntwerpLucerne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km116
Coast distance21 km669 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 28 points.28
AntwerpLucerne
Score7547
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4225
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 29 points.29
AntwerpLucerne
Score6940
Museums within 10 km4123
Museums within 2 km of centre2713
Share of museums within 2 km %6657
Unesco sites within 50 km91
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 31 points.31
AntwerpLucerne
Score5928
Drinking venues within 4 km866202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7675
Nightclubs within 4 km7311
Nature & day trips. Antwerp leads by 9 points.9
AntwerpLucerne
Score3425
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km53 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpLucerne
Score4638
Tourist attractions within 2 km1415
Park area within 2 km53 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpLucerne
Score5435
Notable places within 2 km8829
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpLucerne
Score6035
Price level global76.2110.5
Daily budget€180€248
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpLucerne
Score5853
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm60 mm to 128 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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpLucerne
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€115-161
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureAntwerpLucerne
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m436 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpLucerne
City population529,24786,234
People per km²2,5422,963
Museums within 10 km3814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Distinct cuisines in the centre8046

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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. 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.