VacationSelector

Brussels or Tampa?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

BrusselsTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
BrusselsTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance56 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 27 points.27
BrusselsTampa
Score8154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4431
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 53 points.53
BrusselsTampa
Score8027
Museums within 10 km12013
Museums within 2 km of centre5910
Share of museums within 2 km %4977
Unesco sites within 50 km100
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 29 points.29
BrusselsTampa
Score6839
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6170
Nightclubs within 4 km8426
Nature & day trips. Brussels leads by 1 points.1
BrusselsTampa
Score3130
Protected land share 50 km %66
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km65 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 26 points.26
BrusselsTampa
Score5630
Tourist attractions within 2 km283
Park area within 2 km65 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 52 points.52
BrusselsTampa
Score7321
Notable places within 2 km25413
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 17 points.17
BrusselsTampa
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 18 points.18
BrusselsTampa
Score5775
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureBrusselsTampa
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
Elevation70 m30 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsTampa
City population195,546384,959
People per km²5,908848
Museums within 10 km1056
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km100
Distinct cuisines in the centre10947
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.