VacationSelector

Antwerp or Venice?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

AntwerpVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
AntwerpVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance21 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 30 points.30
AntwerpVenice
Score7545
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 3 points.3
AntwerpVenice
Score6972
Museums within 10 km4157
Museums within 2 km of centre2745
Share of museums within 2 km %6679
Unesco sites within 50 km95
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 24 points.24
AntwerpVenice
Score5935
Drinking venues within 4 km866342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7689
Nightclubs within 4 km733
Nature & day trips. Antwerp leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpVenice
Score3417
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8070
Park area within 2 km53 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpVenice
Score4657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1472
Park area within 2 km53 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 29 points.29
AntwerpVenice
Score5483
Notable places within 2 km88464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpVenice
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpVenice
Score5866
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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

MeasureAntwerpVenice
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m2 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpVenice
City population529,247250,369
People per km²2,542602
Museums within 10 km3852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km95
Distinct cuisines in the centre8046
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.