VacationSelector

Berlin or Brussels?

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 good for families and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Brussels
56
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage 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.

BerlinBrussels
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Brussels are level on 0.
BerlinBrussels
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance142 km56 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 11 points.11
BerlinBrussels
Score7081
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,779
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3344
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 1 points.1
BerlinBrussels
Score7980
Museums within 10 km200120
Museums within 2 km of centre8159
Share of museums within 2 km %4149
Unesco sites within 50 km410
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 8 points.8
BerlinBrussels
Score7668
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719862
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3461
Nightclubs within 4 km13584
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 18 points.18
BerlinBrussels
Score4931
Protected land share 50 km %206
Landscape blanket share 50 km %161
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 20 points.20
BerlinBrussels
Score7656
Tourist attractions within 2 km5428
Park area within 2 km141 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 11 points.11
BerlinBrussels
Score8473
Notable places within 2 km486254
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin and Brussels are level on 60.
BerlinBrussels
Score6060
Price level global75.976.2
Daily budget€163€180
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 3 points.3
BerlinBrussels
Score6057
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C6.1 °C to 23.3 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinBrussels
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 15 m
€187-215
1 stop
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
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

MeasureBerlinBrussels
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 m70 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinBrussels
City population3,782,202195,546
People per km²4,2445,908
Museums within 10 km158105
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km410
Distinct cuisines in the centre86109

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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. 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.