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Rozenhoedkaai and the Belfry, Bruges
BrugesRozenhoedkaai and the Belfry
The Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower

Photos: Bruges by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bruges or Nairobi?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Nairobi for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Nairobi’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, Nairobi 4: Bruges leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Bruges 56, Nairobi 48: Bruges leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Bruges 75, Nairobi 35: Bruges leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Bruges 27, Nairobi 58: Nairobi leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bruges 40, Nairobi 84: Nairobi leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Bruges 85, Nairobi 28: Bruges leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Bruges 54, Nairobi 55: Nairobi leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Bruges 78, Nairobi 20: Bruges leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Bruges and Nairobi are level on 45.
Affordability. Bruges 36, Nairobi 60: Nairobi leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bruges 40, Nairobi 35: Bruges leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bruges 40, Nairobi 25: Bruges leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bruges and Nairobi.

Your match

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

Bruges
Best match
50match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Nairobi
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife 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

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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). Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrugesNairobi
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation2 m1,661 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesNairobi
City population118,5095,545,000
People per km²8407,967
Museums within 10 km384
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.