VacationSelector

Bruges or Limassol?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BrugesLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 71 points.71
BrugesLimassol
Score879
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km127
Coast distance14 km1 km
Water distance14 km1 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 14 points.14
BrugesLimassol
Score5743
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3219
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 13 points.13
BrugesLimassol
Score5744
Museums within 10 km3017
Museums within 2 km of centre2410
Share of museums within 2 km %8059
Unesco sites within 50 km33
Nightlife. Limassol leads by 5 points.5
BrugesLimassol
Score3439
Drinking venues within 4 km292340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8075
Nightclubs within 4 km820
Nature & day trips. Bruges leads by 4 points.4
BrugesLimassol
Score2622
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6549
Park area within 2 km59 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 44 points.44
BrugesLimassol
Score6016
Tourist attractions within 2 km523
Park area within 2 km59 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Bruges leads by 26 points.26
BrugesLimassol
Score4014
Notable places within 2 km409
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 10 points.10
BrugesLimassol
Score6070
Price level global76.261.4
Daily budget€180€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 29 points.29
BrugesLimassol
Score5685
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months18
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 20 m
no fares
CRL · 120 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
2 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 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

MeasureBrugesLimassol
Official languageFrench, German, DutchTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m10 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesLimassol
City population118,509107,970
People per km²8402,405
Museums within 10 km382
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Distinct cuisines in the centre5128
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.