VacationSelector

Brussels or Ljubljana?

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 places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BrusselsLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Ljubljana are level on 0.
BrusselsLjubljana
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance56 km72 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 26 points.26
BrusselsLjubljana
Score8155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4440
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 25 points.25
BrusselsLjubljana
Score8055
Museums within 10 km12026
Museums within 2 km of centre5923
Share of museums within 2 km %4988
Unesco sites within 50 km103
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 23 points.23
BrusselsLjubljana
Score6845
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6162
Nightclubs within 4 km8424
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 9 points.9
BrusselsLjubljana
Score3140
Protected land share 50 km %613
Landscape blanket share 50 km %15
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 18 points.18
BrusselsLjubljana
Score5638
Tourist attractions within 2 km2812
Park area within 2 km65 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 15 points.15
BrusselsLjubljana
Score7358
Notable places within 2 km254109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 12 points.12
BrusselsLjubljana
Score6072
Price level global76.259.6
Daily budget€180€131
Year-round weather. Brussels leads by 1 points.1
BrusselsLjubljana
Score5756
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm67 mm to 159 mm
Dry months00
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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsLjubljana
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
DubrovnikDBV
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBrusselsLjubljana
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSlovene
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
Elevation70 m309 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsLjubljana
City population195,546284,293
People per km²5,9081,736
Museums within 10 km10514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km103
Distinct cuisines in the centre10963

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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. 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.