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Rozenhoedkaai and the Belfry, Bruges
BrugesRozenhoedkaai and the Belfry
The Gateway of India under a blue sky, Mumbai
MumbaiThe Gateway of India under a blue sky

Photos: Bruges by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Mumbai by Shubam Bhasin, Pexels License.

Bruges or Mumbai?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Mumbai for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Mumbai’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, Mumbai 18: Bruges leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Bruges 56, Mumbai 82: Mumbai leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Bruges 75, Mumbai 70: Bruges leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Bruges 27, Mumbai 52: Mumbai leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bruges 40, Mumbai 55: Mumbai leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Bruges 85, Mumbai 48: Bruges leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Bruges 54, Mumbai 35: Bruges leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Bruges 78, Mumbai 38: Bruges leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Bruges 45, Mumbai 66: Mumbai leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Bruges 36, Mumbai 72: Mumbai leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bruges 40, Mumbai 55: Mumbai leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bruges 40, Mumbai 24: Bruges leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bruges and Mumbai.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bruges
50match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Mumbai
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink 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

Mumbai in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
860 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Mumbai: 1991-2020 normals, Bombay / Santacruz (5.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrugesMumbai
Official languageFrench, German, DutchHindi, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+5:30
Emergency number112108 or 112
Elevation2 m14 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM)2 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesMumbai
City population118,50915,414,288
People per km²84025,563
Museums within 10 km381
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
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.