VacationSelector

Berlin or Bruges?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Bruges
44
match

Wins on 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.

BerlinBruges
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BerlinBruges
Score08
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance142 km14 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 13 points.13
BerlinBruges
Score7057
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117443
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3332
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 22 points.22
BerlinBruges
Score7957
Museums within 10 km20030
Museums within 2 km of centre8124
Share of museums within 2 km %4180
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 42 points.42
BerlinBruges
Score7634
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114292
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719233
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3480
Nightclubs within 4 km1358
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinBruges
Score4926
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km141 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 16 points.16
BerlinBruges
Score7660
Tourist attractions within 2 km5452
Park area within 2 km141 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 44 points.44
BerlinBruges
Score8440
Notable places within 2 km48640
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin and Bruges are level on 60.
BerlinBruges
Score6060
Price level global75.976.2
Daily budget€163€180
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinBruges
Score6056
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinBruges
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€126-154
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€86-132
BER · 19 km
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
4 h 55 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

MeasureBerlinBruges
Official languageGermanFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m2 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinBruges
City population3,782,202118,509
People per km²4,244840
Museums within 10 km15838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre8651
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). 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.