VacationSelector

Brussels or Salzburg?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
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.

BrusselsSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Salzburg are level on 0.
BrusselsSalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km09
Coast distance56 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 32 points.32
BrusselsSalzburg
Score8149
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4423
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 20 points.20
BrusselsSalzburg
Score8060
Museums within 10 km12042
Museums within 2 km of centre5927
Share of museums within 2 km %4964
Unesco sites within 50 km103
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 32 points.32
BrusselsSalzburg
Score6836
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6182
Nightclubs within 4 km8416
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 4 points.4
BrusselsSalzburg
Score3127
Protected land share 50 km %66
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 8 points.8
BrusselsSalzburg
Score5648
Tourist attractions within 2 km2817
Park area within 2 km65 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 27 points.27
BrusselsSalzburg
Score7346
Notable places within 2 km25454
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 1 points.1
BrusselsSalzburg
Score6059
Price level global76.276.9
Daily budget€180€160
Year-round weather. Brussels leads by 3 points.3
BrusselsSalzburg
Score5754
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm47 mm to 168 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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M
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsSalzburg
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 11 km
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureBrusselsSalzburg
Official languageFrench, German, DutchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m424 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsSalzburg
City population195,546155,021
People per km²5,9082,360
Museums within 10 km10538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km103
Distinct cuisines in the centre10950

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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.