VacationSelector

Cordoba or Ghent?

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

Your match

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families with your weighting.

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

CordobaGhent
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
CordobaGhent
Score026
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance134 km32 km
Water distance—32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 23 points.23
CordobaGhent
Score4770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre616764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1349
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 11 points.11
CordobaGhent
Score4758
Museums within 10 km2024
Museums within 2 km of centre1920
Share of museums within 2 km %9583
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
CordobaGhent
Score4349
Drinking venues within 4 km444570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre353446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8078
Nightclubs within 4 km1426
Nature & day trips. Cordoba leads by 3 points.3
CordobaGhent
Score3734
Protected land share 50 km %67
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %10087
Park area within 2 km108 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 13 points.13
CordobaGhent
Score6350
Tourist attractions within 2 km5919
Park area within 2 km108 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
CordobaGhent
Score4446
Notable places within 2 km4855
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cordoba leads by 11 points.11
CordobaGhent
Score7160
Price level global60.876.2
Daily budget€122€180
Year-round weather. Cordoba leads by 16 points.16
CordobaGhent
Score7256
Monthly daytime high15.1 °C to 37.1 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 91 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months41
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
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cordoba
No coastline within reach
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCordobaGhent
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCordobaGhent
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
Elevation120 m12 m
Main airportCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCordobaGhent
City population323,262272,657
People per km²2581,728
Museums within 10 km1630
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre2783
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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