VacationSelector

Bruges or San Diego?

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 and museums & heritage with your weighting.

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BrugesSan Diego
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 55 points.55
BrugesSan Diego
Score863
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km142
Coast distance14 km1 km
Water distance14 km1 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 6 points.6
BrugesSan Diego
Score5763
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443823
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 13 points.13
BrugesSan Diego
Score5744
Museums within 10 km3059
Museums within 2 km of centre2430
Share of museums within 2 km %8051
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 16 points.16
BrugesSan Diego
Score3450
Drinking venues within 4 km292615
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233408
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8066
Nightclubs within 4 km831
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 29 points.29
BrugesSan Diego
Score2655
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6552
Park area within 2 km59 hectares308 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 15 points.15
BrugesSan Diego
Score6075
Tourist attractions within 2 km5240
Park area within 2 km59 hectares308 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Bruges and San Diego are level on 40.
BrugesSan Diego
Score4040
Notable places within 2 km4040
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 17 points.17
BrugesSan Diego
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 32 points.32
BrugesSan Diego
Score5688
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C18.6 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm0 mm to 56 mm
Dry months19
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
San Diego
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). San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesSan Diego
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 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

MeasureBrugesSan Diego
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-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m129 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesSan Diego
City population118,5091,386,932
People per km²8401,438
Museums within 10 km3826
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5144
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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.