VacationSelector

Antwerp or Milan?

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

Your match

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AntwerpMilan
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Milan are level on 0.
AntwerpMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km14
Coast distance21 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpMilan
Score7570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4220
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpMilan
Score6974
Museums within 10 km4187
Museums within 2 km of centre2755
Share of museums within 2 km %6663
Unesco sites within 50 km94
Nightlife. Milan leads by 16 points.16
AntwerpMilan
Score5975
Drinking venues within 4 km8662,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7643
Nightclubs within 4 km7370
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 31 points.31
AntwerpMilan
Score3465
Protected land share 50 km %730
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km53 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 31 points.31
AntwerpMilan
Score4677
Tourist attractions within 2 km1476
Park area within 2 km53 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 20 points.20
AntwerpMilan
Score5474
Notable places within 2 km88266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpMilan
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpMilan
Score5864
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm44 mm to 127 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
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A
M
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpMilan
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 36 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 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

MeasureAntwerpMilan
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m138 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpMilan
City population529,2471,354,196
People per km²2,5427,453
Museums within 10 km3887
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km94
Distinct cuisines in the centre8079

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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. 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.

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.