VacationSelector

Bruges or New York?

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 value for money with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BrugesNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 56 points.56
BrugesNew York
Score864
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km117
Coast distance14 km1 km
Water distance14 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 38 points.38
BrugesNew York
Score5795
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4436,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3238
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 3 points.3
BrugesNew York
Score5760
Museums within 10 km30119
Museums within 2 km of centre2431
Share of museums within 2 km %8026
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. New York leads by 55 points.55
BrugesNew York
Score3489
Drinking venues within 4 km2924,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2332,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8048
Nightclubs within 4 km8192
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 13 points.13
BrugesNew York
Score2639
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6569
Park area within 2 km59 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 12 points.12
BrugesNew York
Score6072
Tourist attractions within 2 km5237
Park area within 2 km59 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. New York leads by 34 points.34
BrugesNew York
Score4074
Notable places within 2 km40268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 17 points.17
BrugesNew York
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. New York leads by 2 points.2
BrugesNew York
Score5658
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
New York
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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesNew York
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 40 m
€391-493
JFK · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureBrugesNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesNew York
City population118,5098,804,190
People per km²8407,256
Museums within 10 km38157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre51132
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.