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Rozenhoedkaai and the Belfry, Bruges
BrugesRozenhoedkaai and the Belfry
The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals

Photos: Bruges by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bruges or Fort Lauderdale?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Fort Lauderdale for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Fort Lauderdale’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, Fort Lauderdale 88: Fort Lauderdale leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Bruges 56, Fort Lauderdale 47: Bruges leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Bruges 75, Fort Lauderdale 28: Bruges leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Bruges 27, Fort Lauderdale 52: Fort Lauderdale leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bruges 40, Fort Lauderdale 62: Fort Lauderdale leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bruges 85, Fort Lauderdale 58: Bruges leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Bruges 54, Fort Lauderdale 66: Fort Lauderdale leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bruges 78, Fort Lauderdale 32: Bruges leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Bruges 45, Fort Lauderdale 52: Fort Lauderdale leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bruges 36, Fort Lauderdale 32: Bruges leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bruges 40, Fort Lauderdale 42: Fort Lauderdale leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bruges and Fort Lauderdale are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bruges and Fort Lauderdale.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bruges
50match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
50match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrugesFort Lauderdale
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m11 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesFort Lauderdale
City population118,509182,760
People per km²8401,829
Museums within 10 km386
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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.