VacationSelector

Brussels or Interlaken?

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

Your match

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BrusselsInterlaken
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Interlaken are level on 0.
BrusselsInterlaken
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance56 km713 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 52 points.52
BrusselsInterlaken
Score8129
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779118
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4417
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 57 points.57
BrusselsInterlaken
Score8023
Museums within 10 km1205
Museums within 2 km of centre592
Share of museums within 2 km %4940
Unesco sites within 50 km102
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 64 points.64
BrusselsInterlaken
Score684
Drinking venues within 4 km1,41442
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre86238
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6190
Nightclubs within 4 km843
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsInterlaken
Score3127
Protected land share 50 km %619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares5 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 42 points.42
BrusselsInterlaken
Score5614
Tourist attractions within 2 km2811
Park area within 2 km65 hectares5 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 51 points.51
BrusselsInterlaken
Score7322
Notable places within 2 km25414
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 25 points.25
BrusselsInterlaken
Score6035
Price level global76.2110.5
Daily budget€180€248
Year-round weather. Brussels and Interlaken are level on 57.
BrusselsInterlaken
Score5757
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C2.8 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm34 mm to 68 mm
Dry months03
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Interlaken
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsInterlaken
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€115-161
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureBrusselsInterlaken
Official languageFrench, German, DutchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m571 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsInterlaken
City population195,5466,123
People per km²5,9081,424
Museums within 10 km1053
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km102
Distinct cuisines in the centre10922

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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. 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.