VacationSelector

Bruges or Valencia?

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.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BrugesValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 59 points.59
BrugesValencia
Score867
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance14 km3 km
Water distance14 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 21 points.21
BrugesValencia
Score5778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3233
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 2 points.2
BrugesValencia
Score5755
Museums within 10 km3059
Museums within 2 km of centre2426
Share of museums within 2 km %8044
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 36 points.36
BrugesValencia
Score3470
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8063
Nightclubs within 4 km8108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 27 points.27
BrugesValencia
Score2653
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6564
Park area within 2 km59 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 18 points.18
BrugesValencia
Score6042
Tourist attractions within 2 km5212
Park area within 2 km59 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
BrugesValencia
Score4052
Notable places within 2 km4078
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 11 points.11
BrugesValencia
Score6071
Price level global76.260.8
Daily budget€180€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
BrugesValencia
Score5684
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months18
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesValencia
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
1 h 35 m
€56-140
VLC · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
€155-215
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
LIL · 72 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 94 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureBrugesValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesValencia
City population118,509840,792
People per km²8406,242
Museums within 10 km3846
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre5192
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.