VacationSelector

Bruges or Cadiz?

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 museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Cadiz
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BrugesCadiz
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 62 points.62
BrugesCadiz
Score870
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km129
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 13 points.13
BrugesCadiz
Score5744
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3218
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 21 points.21
BrugesCadiz
Score5736
Museums within 10 km3023
Museums within 2 km of centre2416
Share of museums within 2 km %8070
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 4 points.4
BrugesCadiz
Score3430
Drinking venues within 4 km292241
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8073
Nightclubs within 4 km86
Nature & day trips. Bruges and Cadiz are level on 26.
BrugesCadiz
Score2626
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6545
Park area within 2 km59 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 6 points.6
BrugesCadiz
Score6054
Tourist attractions within 2 km5280
Park area within 2 km59 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bruges leads by 9 points.9
BrugesCadiz
Score4031
Notable places within 2 km4023
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 11 points.11
BrugesCadiz
Score6071
Price level global76.260.8
Daily budget€180€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 27 points.27
BrugesCadiz
Score5683
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C16.2 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm0 mm to 89 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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesCadiz
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 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

MeasureBrugesCadiz
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m11 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesCadiz
City population118,509109,950
People per km²8409,087
Museums within 10 km3811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5128
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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). 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.