VacationSelector

Bruges or Interlaken?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bruges
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

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

BrugesInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesInterlaken
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance14 km713 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 28 points.28
BrugesInterlaken
Score5729
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3217
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 34 points.34
BrugesInterlaken
Score5723
Museums within 10 km305
Museums within 2 km of centre242
Share of museums within 2 km %8040
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 30 points.30
BrugesInterlaken
Score344
Drinking venues within 4 km29242
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre23338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8090
Nightclubs within 4 km83
Nature & day trips. Interlaken leads by 1 points.1
BrugesInterlaken
Score2627
Protected land share 50 km %219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 46 points.46
BrugesInterlaken
Score6014
Tourist attractions within 2 km5211
Park area within 2 km59 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bruges leads by 18 points.18
BrugesInterlaken
Score4022
Notable places within 2 km4014
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 25 points.25
BrugesInterlaken
Score6035
Price level global76.2110.5
Daily budget€180€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 1 points.1
BrugesInterlaken
Score5657
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months13
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesInterlaken
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
€70-92
ZRH · 100 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureBrugesInterlaken
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m571 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesInterlaken
City population118,5096,123
People per km²8401,424
Museums within 10 km383
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5122
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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.