VacationSelector

Antwerp or Sydney?

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

Your match

Antwerp
51
match

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

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
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.

AntwerpSydney
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
AntwerpSydney
Score060
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km1160
Coast distance21 km7 km
Water distance—7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpSydney
Score7578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1642,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4231
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 18 points.18
AntwerpSydney
Score6951
Museums within 10 km4144
Museums within 2 km of centre2720
Share of museums within 2 km %6645
Unesco sites within 50 km92
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 16 points.16
AntwerpSydney
Score5975
Drinking venues within 4 km8662,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6571,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7669
Nightclubs within 4 km73120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 24 points.24
AntwerpSydney
Score3458
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8052
Park area within 2 km53 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 18 points.18
AntwerpSydney
Score4664
Tourist attractions within 2 km1437
Park area within 2 km53 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpSydney
Score5460
Notable places within 2 km88123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 10 points.10
AntwerpSydney
Score6050
Price level global76.290.2
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 23 points.23
AntwerpSydney
Score5881
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm55 mm to 121 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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Daytime high, °C
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpSydney
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
15 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
6 h 5 m
€460-617
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
8 h 5 m
€498-549
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureAntwerpSydney
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation7 m6 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpSydney
City population529,2475,450,496
People per km²2,542449
Museums within 10 km3838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Distinct cuisines in the centre8079
Swim season, months above 21 °C–6 months

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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.