VacationSelector

Bruges or Cordoba?

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 places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Cordoba
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

BrugesCordoba
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesCordoba
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance14 km134 km
Water distance14 km—
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 10 points.10
BrugesCordoba
Score5747
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443616
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3213
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 10 points.10
BrugesCordoba
Score5747
Museums within 10 km3020
Museums within 2 km of centre2419
Share of museums within 2 km %8095
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Cordoba leads by 9 points.9
BrugesCordoba
Score3443
Drinking venues within 4 km292444
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8080
Nightclubs within 4 km814
Nature & day trips. Cordoba leads by 11 points.11
BrugesCordoba
Score2637
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares108 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 3 points.3
BrugesCordoba
Score6063
Tourist attractions within 2 km5259
Park area within 2 km59 hectares108 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Cordoba leads by 4 points.4
BrugesCordoba
Score4044
Notable places within 2 km4048
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cordoba leads by 11 points.11
BrugesCordoba
Score6071
Price level global76.260.8
Daily budget€180€122
Year-round weather. Cordoba leads by 16 points.16
BrugesCordoba
Score5672
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C15.1 °C to 37.1 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm1 mm to 91 mm
Dry months14
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
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Cordoba
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Cordoba
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
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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). Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesCordoba
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€153-230
2 stops
LIL · 72 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 111 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 111 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 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

MeasureBrugesCordoba
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 m120 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesCordoba
City population118,509323,262
People per km²840258
Museums within 10 km3816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5127
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. 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.