VacationSelector

Atlanta or Ghent?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AtlantaGhent
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
AtlantaGhent
Score026
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance373 km32 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaGhent
Score5970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2349
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 23 points.23
AtlantaGhent
Score3558
Museums within 10 km4124
Museums within 2 km of centre1620
Share of museums within 2 km %3983
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Atlanta and Ghent are level on 49.
AtlantaGhent
Score4949
Drinking venues within 4 km531570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5378
Nightclubs within 4 km4626
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
AtlantaGhent
Score3134
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %10087
Park area within 2 km113 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 18 points.18
AtlantaGhent
Score3250
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km113 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
AtlantaGhent
Score4046
Notable places within 2 km3955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 17 points.17
AtlantaGhent
Score4360
Price level global10076.2
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 11 points.11
AtlantaGhent
Score6756
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months01
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaGhent
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 30 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaGhent
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m12 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaGhent
City population498,715272,657
People per km²1,4331,728
Museums within 10 km2730
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre5683
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.