VacationSelector

Bruges or Miami?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BrugesMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 87 points.87
BrugesMiami
Score895
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance14 km1 km
Water distance14 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 8 points.8
BrugesMiami
Score5765
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3229
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 34 points.34
BrugesMiami
Score5723
Museums within 10 km3028
Museums within 2 km of centre246
Share of museums within 2 km %8021
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Miami leads by 16 points.16
BrugesMiami
Score3450
Drinking venues within 4 km292538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8053
Nightclubs within 4 km863
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 46 points.46
BrugesMiami
Score2672
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6548
Park area within 2 km59 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 16 points.16
BrugesMiami
Score6044
Tourist attractions within 2 km5214
Park area within 2 km59 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Miami leads by 2 points.2
BrugesMiami
Score4042
Notable places within 2 km4045
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 17 points.17
BrugesMiami
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 18 points.18
BrugesMiami
Score5674
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months10
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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesMiami
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureBrugesMiami
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 m2 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesMiami
City population118,509442,241
People per km²8403,046
Museums within 10 km3817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5139
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.