VacationSelector

Antwerp or Vancouver?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
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.

AntwerpVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
AntwerpVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1109
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpVancouver
Score7574
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4235
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 35 points.35
AntwerpVancouver
Score6934
Museums within 10 km4127
Museums within 2 km of centre2715
Share of museums within 2 km %6656
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpVancouver
Score5957
Drinking venues within 4 km866848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7671
Nightclubs within 4 km7344
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 43 points.43
AntwerpVancouver
Score3477
Protected land share 50 km %719
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8060
Park area within 2 km53 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpVancouver
Score4653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1415
Park area within 2 km53 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpVancouver
Score5448
Notable places within 2 km8863
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpVancouver
Score6054
Price level global76.284
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 5 points.5
AntwerpVancouver
Score5853
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
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
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpVancouver
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 36 km
5 h 0 m
€219-262
2 stops
YVR · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 123 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 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

MeasureAntwerpVancouver
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpVancouver
City population529,247662,248
People per km²2,5425,759
Museums within 10 km3826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8085
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.