VacationSelector

Brussels or Hong Kong?

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

Your match

Brussels
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
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.

BrusselsHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
BrusselsHong Kong
Score087
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km065
Coast distance56 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 7 points.7
BrusselsHong Kong
Score8188
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7794,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4432
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 44 points.44
BrusselsHong Kong
Score8036
Museums within 10 km12050
Museums within 2 km of centre5917
Share of museums within 2 km %4934
Unesco sites within 50 km100
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
BrusselsHong Kong
Score6871
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4141,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8621,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6159
Nightclubs within 4 km8437
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 33 points.33
BrusselsHong Kong
Score3164
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10029
Park area within 2 km65 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 2 points.2
BrusselsHong Kong
Score5658
Tourist attractions within 2 km2827
Park area within 2 km65 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsHong Kong
Score7369
Notable places within 2 km254204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
BrusselsHong Kong
Score6063
Price level global76.272
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
BrusselsHong Kong
Score5774
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months04
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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsHong Kong
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureBrusselsHong Kong
Official languageFrench, German, DutchStandard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation70 m7 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsHong Kong
City population195,5467,413,070
People per km²5,908
Museums within 10 km10539
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km100
Distinct cuisines in the centre10976
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.