VacationSelector

Antwerp or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Antwerp if the trip is built around museums and evenings out: it has the deeper museum stock, 9 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, and far more bars and clubs near the centre.

Choose Strasbourg if you want green surroundings and warmer summer days: much of the land around it is protected, its central parks are larger, and summer highs reach 26°C.

Scoreboard

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

AntwerpStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Strasbourg are level on 0.
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance21 km398 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score7567
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4236
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 28 points.28
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score6941
Museums within 10 km4123
Museums within 2 km of centre2714
Share of museums within 2 km %6661
Unesco sites within 50 km91
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 23 points.23
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score5936
Drinking venues within 4 km866305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7687
Nightclubs within 4 km7317
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 20 points.20
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score3454
Protected land share 50 km %737
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km53 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score4638
Tourist attractions within 2 km149
Park area within 2 km53 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score5458
Notable places within 2 km88109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score6062
Price level global76.273.7
Daily budget€180€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpStrasbourg
Score5863
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

Where they differ

Antwerp is the stronger city for museums, with about twice as many as Strasbourg, and for evenings out: roughly three times as many places to drink, and many times as many nightclubs, with most of both close to the centre.

Strasbourg's strength is what surrounds it. 37% of the land around the city is protected against 7% around Antwerp, and its central parks are larger, so a day spent outdoors takes less planning and less travelling to reach.

Where they are alike

Neither is a swimming destination. Strasbourg has 9 beaches within reach against Antwerp's 1, but neither has water warm enough to swim in, so water here is scenery rather than a plan.

Both are compact enough to cover on foot, with the notable places clustered near the centre and Strasbourg holding slightly more of them. Eating out is comparable too, Antwerp with somewhat more restaurants close in and a wider range of kitchens.

Which traveller are you?

Museum-goers who want the evening to continue afterwards should take Antwerp: twice the museum stock, and bars and clubs concentrated near the centre rather than scattered across the city.

Walkers and day-trippers are better served by Strasbourg, where most of the surrounding land is protected and the central parks are larger, with the notable places close enough together to link on foot.

Families with children who tire of walking will find more to do in Antwerp, with about twice as many attractions near the centre and 3 theme parks within reach against Strasbourg's 1, though Strasbourg's larger parks give more room to run.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €180 for Belgium and €160 for France, are national estimates of what restaurants and hotels cost, not measurements of Antwerp or Strasbourg. A heavily visited city can sit far enough from its own country's average to swallow a gap this small, so treat them as background rather than a reason to choose.

Strasbourg's drier record is real but awkwardly timed: the months at 40mm or less are the coldest ones, with highs of 5-12°C, while the wettest falls in the middle of the travelling season. And although it has more beaches nearby, neither city offers water warm enough to swim in.

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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Antwerp's usable window is June to August, with highs of 21-23°C, though rain peaks then too, at 80-90mm in the two summer months. September is milder at 20°C and slightly drier.

Strasbourg runs warmer through the same window, 24-26°C, and its dry stretch comes earlier: 34-42mm from February to April, against Antwerp's driest at 47mm. May is the exception, at 77mm.

Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
NiceNCE
1 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
€81-198
SXB · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureAntwerpStrasbourg
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 m132 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpStrasbourg
City population529,247293,771
People per km²2,5423,752
Museums within 10 km3821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Distinct cuisines in the centre8087

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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.