VacationSelector

Cadiz or Ghent?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Ghent
50
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage 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.

CadizGhent
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 44 points.44
CadizGhent
Score7026
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km298
Coast distance0 km32 km
Water distance0 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
CadizGhent
Score4470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1849
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 22 points.22
CadizGhent
Score3658
Museums within 10 km2324
Museums within 2 km of centre1620
Share of museums within 2 km %7083
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 19 points.19
CadizGhent
Score3049
Drinking venues within 4 km241570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7378
Nightclubs within 4 km626
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
CadizGhent
Score2634
Protected land share 50 km %47
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %4587
Park area within 2 km24 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 4 points.4
CadizGhent
Score5450
Tourist attractions within 2 km8019
Park area within 2 km24 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 15 points.15
CadizGhent
Score3146
Notable places within 2 km2355
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz leads by 11 points.11
CadizGhent
Score7160
Price level global60.876.2
Daily budget€122€180
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 27 points.27
CadizGhent
Score8356
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months51
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
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCadizGhent
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 15 m
€101-155
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureCadizGhent
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m12 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizGhent
City population109,950272,657
People per km²9,0871,728
Museums within 10 km1130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre2883
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.