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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Antwerp or Nice?

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

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Nice 66: Nice leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Nice 64: Antwerp leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Nice 47: Antwerp leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Nice 80: Nice leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Nice 87: Nice leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Nice 57: Antwerp leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Nice 74: Antwerp leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Nice 55: Antwerp leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Nice 35: Antwerp leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Nice 45: Antwerp leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Nice 40: Nice leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Nice.

Your match

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

Antwerp
55match

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

Nice
Best match
60match

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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpNice
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m0 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpNice
City population529,247357,737
People per km²2,5424,975
Museums within 10 km3817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. 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 figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.