VacationSelector

Bangkok or Bruges?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money with your weighting.

Bruges
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BangkokBruges
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 32 points.32
BangkokBruges
Score408
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance23 km14 km
Water distance23 km14 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 26 points.26
BangkokBruges
Score8357
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957443
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 11 points.11
BangkokBruges
Score4657
Museums within 10 km10330
Museums within 2 km of centre3024
Share of museums within 2 km %2980
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 49 points.49
BangkokBruges
Score8334
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383292
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396233
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4180
Nightclubs within 4 km728
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 25 points.25
BangkokBruges
Score5126
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8365
Park area within 2 km42 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 3 points.3
BangkokBruges
Score5760
Tourist attractions within 2 km3152
Park area within 2 km42 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
BangkokBruges
Score4840
Notable places within 2 km6240
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokBruges
Score9360
Price level global29.776.2
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Bangkok and Bruges are level on 56.
BangkokBruges
Score5656
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months31
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Bruges
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBruges
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 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

MeasureBangkokBruges
Official languageThaiFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBruges
City population5,676,648118,509
People per km²3,619840
Museums within 10 km5938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre9151
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.