VacationSelector

Antwerp or Washington DC?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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.

AntwerpWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Washington DC leads by 18 points.18
AntwerpWashington DC
Score018
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance21 km34 km
Water distance34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpWashington DC
Score7577
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4236
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpWashington DC
Score6955
Museums within 10 km4183
Museums within 2 km of centre2755
Share of museums within 2 km %6666
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpWashington DC
Score5961
Drinking venues within 4 km8661,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7658
Nightclubs within 4 km7354
Nature & day trips. Washington DC leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpWashington DC
Score3442
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8094
Park area within 2 km53 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 8 points.8
AntwerpWashington DC
Score4638
Tourist attractions within 2 km147
Park area within 2 km53 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 22 points.22
AntwerpWashington DC
Score5476
Notable places within 2 km88305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpWashington DC
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Washington DC leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpWashington DC
Score5862
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm65 mm to 108 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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Washington DC
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). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpWashington DC
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
1 h 40 m
€267-307
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureAntwerpWashington DC
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m72 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpWashington DC
City population529,247689,545
People per km²2,5423,896
Museums within 10 km3899
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8082
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.