VacationSelector

Bruges or Budapest?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BrugesBudapest
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesBudapest
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16
Coast distance14 km10,000 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 20 points.20
BrugesBudapest
Score5777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,699
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 7 points.7
BrugesBudapest
Score5764
Museums within 10 km30144
Museums within 2 km of centre2464
Share of museums within 2 km %8044
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 38 points.38
BrugesBudapest
Score3472
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,765
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2331,168
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8066
Nightclubs within 4 km897
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 14 points.14
BrugesBudapest
Score2640
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares111 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 11 points.11
BrugesBudapest
Score6071
Tourist attractions within 2 km5275
Park area within 2 km59 hectares111 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
BrugesBudapest
Score4069
Notable places within 2 km40206
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 20 points.20
BrugesBudapest
Score6080
Price level global76.248
Daily budget€180€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 8 points.8
BrugesBudapest
Score5664
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C3.6 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm27 mm to 75 mm
Dry months15
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesBudapest
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
3 h 0 m
€84-154
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
3 h 35 m
€159-167
BUD · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 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

MeasureBrugesBudapest
Official languageFrench, German, DutchHungarian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Forint (HUF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m117 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesBudapest
City population118,5091,685,209
People per km²8403,209
Museums within 10 km3881
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5186
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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.