VacationSelector

Florence or Ghent?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Ghent
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.

FlorenceGhent
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
FlorenceGhent
Score026
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance78 km32 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceGhent
Score5970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1549
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 24 points.24
FlorenceGhent
Score8258
Museums within 10 km13224
Museums within 2 km of centre9320
Share of museums within 2 km %7083
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Florence leads by 7 points.7
FlorenceGhent
Score5649
Drinking venues within 4 km818570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7378
Nightclubs within 4 km3426
Nature & day trips. Florence leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceGhent
Score3834
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %24
Land share of disc %10087
Park area within 2 km86 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 2 points.2
FlorenceGhent
Score5250
Tourist attractions within 2 km3019
Park area within 2 km86 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 29 points.29
FlorenceGhent
Score7546
Notable places within 2 km29255
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceGhent
Score6860
Price level global64.976.2
Daily budget€155€180
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 12 points.12
FlorenceGhent
Score6856
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months21
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceGhent
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 30 m
€71-157
CRL · 84 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
6 h 45 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 2026-08 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

MeasureFlorenceGhent
Official languageItalianFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m12 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceGhent
City population360,930272,657
People per km²3,5281,728
Museums within 10 km14030
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre6283
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.