VacationSelector

Bruges or Florence?

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 and good for families with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

BrugesFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesFlorence
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance14 km78 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 2 points.2
BrugesFlorence
Score5759
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 25 points.25
BrugesFlorence
Score5782
Museums within 10 km30132
Museums within 2 km of centre2493
Share of museums within 2 km %8070
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Florence leads by 22 points.22
BrugesFlorence
Score3456
Drinking venues within 4 km292818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8073
Nightclubs within 4 km834
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 12 points.12
BrugesFlorence
Score2638
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesFlorence
Score6052
Tourist attractions within 2 km5230
Park area within 2 km59 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 35 points.35
BrugesFlorence
Score4075
Notable places within 2 km40292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 8 points.8
BrugesFlorence
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 12 points.12
BrugesFlorence
Score5668
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Florence
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesFlorence
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 25 m
€185-255
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
€71-157
CRL · 120 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 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

MeasureBrugesFlorence
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 m50 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesFlorence
City population118,509360,930
People per km²8403,528
Museums within 10 km38140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre5162
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.