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Budapest or Maastricht?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
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.

BudapestMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Maastricht are level on 0.
BudapestMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km66
Coast distance10,000 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 29 points.29
BudapestMaastricht
Score7748
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3522
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 11 points.11
BudapestMaastricht
Score6453
Museums within 10 km14423
Museums within 2 km of centre6413
Share of museums within 2 km %4457
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 42 points.42
BudapestMaastricht
Score7230
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6682
Nightclubs within 4 km9713
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 3 points.3
BudapestMaastricht
Score4037
Protected land share 50 km %819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 25 points.25
BudapestMaastricht
Score7146
Tourist attractions within 2 km7515
Park area within 2 km111 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 33 points.33
BudapestMaastricht
Score6936
Notable places within 2 km20632
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 22 points.22
BudapestMaastricht
Score8058
Price level global4879.2
Daily budget€104€181
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 5 points.5
BudapestMaastricht
Score6459
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm41 mm to 84 mm
Dry months50
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 20 m
€43-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
FaroFAO
3 h 35 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 15 m
€122-156
BUD · 18 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureBudapestMaastricht
Official languageHungarianDutch
CurrencyForint (HUF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation117 m49 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestMaastricht
City population1,685,209120,227
People per km²3,2092,000
Museums within 10 km8121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre8633

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.