VacationSelector

Bruges or Nice?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Nice
✓ 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.

BrugesNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 65 points.65
BrugesNice
Score873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance14 km1 km
Water distance14 km1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 12 points.12
BrugesNice
Score5769
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3228
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 11 points.11
BrugesNice
Score5746
Museums within 10 km3027
Museums within 2 km of centre2414
Share of museums within 2 km %8052
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Nice leads by 10 points.10
BrugesNice
Score3444
Drinking venues within 4 km292428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8091
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 31 points.31
BrugesNice
Score2657
Protected land share 50 km %224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %020
Land share of disc %6562
Park area within 2 km59 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 30 points.30
BrugesNice
Score6030
Tourist attractions within 2 km524
Park area within 2 km59 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Nice leads by 7 points.7
BrugesNice
Score4047
Notable places within 2 km4060
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 2 points.2
BrugesNice
Score6062
Price level global76.273.7
Daily budget€180€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 18 points.18
BrugesNice
Score5674
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months13
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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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 6 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 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

MeasureBrugesNice
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m0 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesNice
City population118,509357,737
People per km²8404,975
Museums within 10 km3816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5165
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.