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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Antwerp or Sapporo?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Sapporo leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Sapporo 40: Antwerp leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Sapporo 64: Antwerp leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Sapporo 58: Antwerp leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Sapporo 44: Antwerp leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Sapporo.

Your match

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

Antwerp
55match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °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). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpSapporo
Official languageFrench, German, DutchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation7 m5 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpSapporo
City population529,2471,959,313
People per km²2,5421,747
Museums within 10 km3833
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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. 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.

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.