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Antwerp or Philadelphia?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
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.

AntwerpPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Philadelphia are level on 0.
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance21 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score7577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4235
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 9 points.9
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score6960
Museums within 10 km4189
Museums within 2 km of centre2748
Share of museums within 2 km %6654
Unesco sites within 50 km91
Nightlife. Antwerp and Philadelphia are level on 59.
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score5959
Drinking venues within 4 km866930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7662
Nightclubs within 4 km7341
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score3449
Protected land share 50 km %714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8089
Park area within 2 km53 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score4653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1416
Park area within 2 km53 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Antwerp and Philadelphia are level on 54.
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score5454
Notable places within 2 km8888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpPhiladelphia
Score5860
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm69 mm to 112 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpPhiladelphia
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
CuracaoCUR
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
10 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasureAntwerpPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpPhiladelphia
City population529,2471,603,797
People per km²2,5424,339
Museums within 10 km3854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Distinct cuisines in the centre8075

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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.