VacationSelector

Bruges or Munich?

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 with your weighting.

Munich
✓ Best match
57
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.

BrugesMunich
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesMunich
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16
Coast distance14 km579 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 16 points.16
BrugesMunich
Score5773
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 4 points.4
BrugesMunich
Score5761
Museums within 10 km3074
Museums within 2 km of centre2448
Share of museums within 2 km %8065
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Munich leads by 33 points.33
BrugesMunich
Score3467
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8057
Nightclubs within 4 km8103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 22 points.22
BrugesMunich
Score2648
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 19 points.19
BrugesMunich
Score6079
Tourist attractions within 2 km5280
Park area within 2 km59 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 28 points.28
BrugesMunich
Score4068
Notable places within 2 km40196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges and Munich are level on 60.
BrugesMunich
Score6060
Price level global76.275.9
Daily budget€180€163
Year-round weather. Bruges and Munich are level on 56.
BrugesMunich
Score5656
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesMunich
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureBrugesMunich
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 m519 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesMunich
City population118,5091,510,378
People per km²8404,861
Museums within 10 km3874
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5189
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.