VacationSelector

Bruges or Catania?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Catania
✓ Best match
52
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.

BrugesCatania
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 50 points.50
BrugesCatania
Score858
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km15
Coast distance14 km1 km
Water distance14 km1 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesCatania
Score5749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443637
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 2 points.2
BrugesCatania
Score5759
Museums within 10 km3034
Museums within 2 km of centre2427
Share of museums within 2 km %8079
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Catania leads by 13 points.13
BrugesCatania
Score3447
Drinking venues within 4 km292537
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233403
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8075
Nightclubs within 4 km818
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 5 points.5
BrugesCatania
Score2631
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6561
Park area within 2 km59 hectares11 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 24 points.24
BrugesCatania
Score6036
Tourist attractions within 2 km5225
Park area within 2 km59 hectares11 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bruges leads by 1 points.1
BrugesCatania
Score4039
Notable places within 2 km4037
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 8 points.8
BrugesCatania
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 21 points.21
BrugesCatania
Score5677
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C15.8 °C to 34.5 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBrugesCatania
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 35 m
€133-162
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
2 h 5 m
€115-151
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 55 m
€157-299
CTA · 4 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

MeasureBrugesCatania
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m7 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesCatania
City population118,509311,584
People per km²8401,704
Museums within 10 km3825
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre5130
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.