VacationSelector

Bangkok or Brussels?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Brussels
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BangkokBrussels
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokBrussels
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance23 km56 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokBrussels
Score8381
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,779
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2644
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 34 points.34
BangkokBrussels
Score4680
Museums within 10 km103120
Museums within 2 km of centre3059
Share of museums within 2 km %2949
Unesco sites within 50 km010
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
BangkokBrussels
Score8368
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396862
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4161
Nightclubs within 4 km7284
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 20 points.20
BangkokBrussels
Score5131
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 1 points.1
BangkokBrussels
Score5756
Tourist attractions within 2 km3128
Park area within 2 km42 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 25 points.25
BangkokBrussels
Score4873
Notable places within 2 km62254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 33 points.33
BangkokBrussels
Score9360
Price level global29.776.2
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Brussels leads by 1 points.1
BangkokBrussels
Score5657
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C6.1 °C to 23.3 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm47 mm to 90 mm
Dry months30
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBrussels
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
6 h 5 m
€318-365
BKK · 26 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBangkokBrussels
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 m70 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBrussels
City population5,676,648195,546
People per km²3,6195,908
Museums within 10 km59105
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km010
Distinct cuisines in the centre91109
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.