VacationSelector

Bruges or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bruges
44
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BrugesWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 80 points.80
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score888
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 20 points.20
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score5737
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 40 points.40
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score5717
Museums within 10 km305
Museums within 2 km of centre243
Share of museums within 2 km %8060
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 14 points.14
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score3420
Drinking venues within 4 km292132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre23390
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8068
Nightclubs within 4 km810
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 43 points.43
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score2669
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6545
Park area within 2 km59 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 39 points.39
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score6021
Tourist attractions within 2 km523
Park area within 2 km59 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Bruges leads by 28 points.28
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score4012
Notable places within 2 km408
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 17 points.17
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.19
BrugesWest Palm Beach
Score5675
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months10
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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesWest Palm Beach
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureBrugesWest Palm Beach
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesWest Palm Beach
City population118,509117,415
People per km²840786
Museums within 10 km384
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre5118
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.