VacationSelector

Bruges or Venice?

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 places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BrugesVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 61 points.61
BrugesVenice
Score869
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance14 km4 km
Water distance14 km4 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 12 points.12
BrugesVenice
Score5745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 15 points.15
BrugesVenice
Score5772
Museums within 10 km3057
Museums within 2 km of centre2445
Share of museums within 2 km %8079
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Venice leads by 1 points.1
BrugesVenice
Score3435
Drinking venues within 4 km292342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8089
Nightclubs within 4 km83
Nature & day trips. Bruges leads by 9 points.9
BrugesVenice
Score2617
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6570
Park area within 2 km59 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 3 points.3
BrugesVenice
Score6057
Tourist attractions within 2 km5272
Park area within 2 km59 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 43 points.43
BrugesVenice
Score4083
Notable places within 2 km40464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 8 points.8
BrugesVenice
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 10 points.10
BrugesVenice
Score5666
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months12
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesVenice
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 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

MeasureBrugesVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesVenice
City population118,509250,369
People per km²840602
Museums within 10 km3852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre5146
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.