VacationSelector

Bruges or Hamburg?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BrugesHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesHamburg
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km116
Coast distance14 km22 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 16 points.16
BrugesHamburg
Score5773
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3238
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 3 points.3
BrugesHamburg
Score5760
Museums within 10 km3094
Museums within 2 km of centre2450
Share of museums within 2 km %8053
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 34 points.34
BrugesHamburg
Score3468
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8062
Nightclubs within 4 km8119
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 14 points.14
BrugesHamburg
Score2640
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %6599
Park area within 2 km59 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Bruges and Hamburg are level on 60.
BrugesHamburg
Score6060
Tourist attractions within 2 km5240
Park area within 2 km59 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 19 points.19
BrugesHamburg
Score4059
Notable places within 2 km40118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges and Hamburg are level on 60.
BrugesHamburg
Score6060
Price level global76.275.9
Daily budget€180€163
Year-round weather. Bruges leads by 1 points.1
BrugesHamburg
Score5655
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm39 mm to 82 mm
Dry months11
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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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesHamburg
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
OST · 24 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 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

MeasureBrugesHamburg
Official languageFrench, German, DutchGerman
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 m6 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesHamburg
City population118,5091,910,160
People per km²8402,530
Museums within 10 km3877
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5183
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.