VacationSelector

Bruges or Rome?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BrugesRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 25 points.25
BrugesRome
Score833
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km13
Coast distance14 km24 km
Water distance14 km24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 3 points.3
BrugesRome
Score5760
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4432,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3210
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 27 points.27
BrugesRome
Score5784
Museums within 10 km30161
Museums within 2 km of centre2479
Share of museums within 2 km %8049
Unesco sites within 50 km37
Nightlife. Rome leads by 40 points.40
BrugesRome
Score3474
Drinking venues within 4 km2922,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8045
Nightclubs within 4 km885
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 44 points.44
BrugesRome
Score2670
Protected land share 50 km %219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6578
Park area within 2 km59 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 26 points.26
BrugesRome
Score6086
Tourist attractions within 2 km52126
Park area within 2 km59 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 59 points.59
BrugesRome
Score4099
Notable places within 2 km401,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 8 points.8
BrugesRome
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 15 points.15
BrugesRome
Score5671
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm21 mm to 114 mm
Dry months13
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rome
10
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBrugesRome
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
2 h 50 m
€91-168
FCO · 23 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 35 m
€66-127
FCO · 23 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
Addis AbabaADD
7 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
11 h 45 m
€893-1016
1 stop
FCO · 23 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

MeasureBrugesRome
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m21 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesRome
City population118,5092,748,109
People per km²8402,135
Museums within 10 km38177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km37
Distinct cuisines in the centre5165
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Bruges or Rome somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.