VacationSelector

Ghent or Hong Kong?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

GhentHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 61 points.61
GhentHong Kong
Score2687
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km865
Coast distance32 km0 km
Water distance32 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 18 points.18
GhentHong Kong
Score7088
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7644,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4932
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 22 points.22
GhentHong Kong
Score5836
Museums within 10 km2450
Museums within 2 km of centre2017
Share of museums within 2 km %8334
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
GhentHong Kong
Score4971
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4461,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7859
Nightclubs within 4 km2637
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 30 points.30
GhentHong Kong
Score3464
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8729
Park area within 2 km84 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 8 points.8
GhentHong Kong
Score5058
Tourist attractions within 2 km1927
Park area within 2 km84 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 23 points.23
GhentHong Kong
Score4669
Notable places within 2 km55204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
GhentHong Kong
Score6063
Price level global76.272
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 18 points.18
GhentHong Kong
Score5674
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm23 mm to 493 mm
Dry months14
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromGhentHong Kong
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureGhentHong Kong
Official languageFrench, German, DutchStandard Chinese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation12 m7 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentHong Kong
City population272,6577,413,070
People per km²1,728–
Museums within 10 km3039
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8376
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.