VacationSelector

Bruges or Toledo?

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

Your match

Bruges
✓ Best match
44
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

BrugesToledo
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesToledo
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance14 km320 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 33 points.33
BrugesToledo
Score5724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km327
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 11 points.11
BrugesToledo
Score5746
Museums within 10 km3019
Museums within 2 km of centre2419
Share of museums within 2 km %80100
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 17 points.17
BrugesToledo
Score3417
Drinking venues within 4 km292120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8096
Nightclubs within 4 km85
Nature & day trips. Toledo leads by 2 points.2
BrugesToledo
Score2628
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 6 points.6
BrugesToledo
Score6054
Tourist attractions within 2 km5232
Park area within 2 km59 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Toledo leads by 6 points.6
BrugesToledo
Score4046
Notable places within 2 km4055
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 11 points.11
BrugesToledo
Score6071
Price level global76.260.8
Daily budget€180€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 18 points.18
BrugesToledo
Score5674
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months111
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
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Toledo
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
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesToledo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 80 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 80 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
11 h 30 m
€638-793
2 stops
MAD · 80 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
10 h 30 m
€636-955
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureBrugesToledo
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m523 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesToledo
City population118,50987,216
People per km²840376
Museums within 10 km3813
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5113
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.