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Rozenhoedkaai and the Belfry, Bruges
BrugesRozenhoedkaai and the Belfry
India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds

Photos: Bruges by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License.

Bruges or Delhi?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bruges for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Bruges’s own page.

Choose Delhi for

  • prices
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Delhi’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bruges 28, Delhi 4: Bruges leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Bruges 56, Delhi 84: Delhi leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Bruges 75, Delhi 85: Delhi leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Bruges 27, Delhi 44: Delhi leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bruges 40, Delhi 20: Bruges leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bruges 85, Delhi 68: Bruges leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bruges 54, Delhi 32: Bruges leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Bruges 78, Delhi 55: Bruges leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Bruges 45, Delhi 78: Delhi leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Bruges 36, Delhi 90: Delhi leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bruges 40, Delhi 55: Delhi leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bruges 40, Delhi 25: Bruges leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bruges and Delhi.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bruges
50match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Delhi
Best match
53match

Wins on prices and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bruges in July

21 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bruges has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Bruges's sunshine is measured 37 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zeebrugge / Zeemanshaard (15.8 km from centre). Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrugesDelhi
Official languageFrench, German, DutchHindi, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation2 m221 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesDelhi
City population118,50926,495,000
People per km²84018,962
Museums within 10 km3823
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.