VacationSelector

Antwerp or Seattle?

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, 1 point apart

Antwerp
51
match

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

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AntwerpSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
AntwerpSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1100
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Antwerp and Seattle are level on 75.
AntwerpSeattle
Score7575
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4235
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 33 points.33
AntwerpSeattle
Score6936
Museums within 10 km4128
Museums within 2 km of centre2717
Share of museums within 2 km %6661
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpSeattle
Score5957
Drinking venues within 4 km866873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7680
Nightclubs within 4 km7334
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpSeattle
Score3440
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8080
Park area within 2 km53 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp and Seattle are level on 46.
AntwerpSeattle
Score4646
Tourist attractions within 2 km1417
Park area within 2 km53 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpSeattle
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8876
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpSeattle
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpSeattle
Score5861
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
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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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Seattle
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
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpSeattle
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureAntwerpSeattle
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m40 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpSeattle
City population529,247737,015
People per km²2,5421,996
Museums within 10 km3827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8078
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.