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Brussels or Zagreb?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BrusselsZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Zagreb are level on 0.
BrusselsZagreb
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance56 km117 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 29 points.29
BrusselsZagreb
Score8152
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,779374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4427
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 35 points.35
BrusselsZagreb
Score8045
Museums within 10 km12041
Museums within 2 km of centre5940
Share of museums within 2 km %4998
Unesco sites within 50 km100
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 7 points.7
BrusselsZagreb
Score6861
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4141,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6157
Nightclubs within 4 km8463
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 3 points.3
BrusselsZagreb
Score3134
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 28 points.28
BrusselsZagreb
Score5628
Tourist attractions within 2 km287
Park area within 2 km65 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 13 points.13
BrusselsZagreb
Score7360
Notable places within 2 km254122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 20 points.20
BrusselsZagreb
Score6080
Price level global76.248.5
Daily budget€180€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 5 points.5
BrusselsZagreb
Score5762
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
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
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubrovnikDBV
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureBrusselsZagreb
Official languageFrench, German, DutchCroatian
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 m127 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsZagreb
City population195,546767,131
People per km²5,908
Museums within 10 km10527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km100
Distinct cuisines in the centre10942

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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.