VacationSelector

Ghent or Liverpool?

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 and places to eat with your weighting.

Liverpool
✓ Best match
55
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.

GhentLiverpool
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 34 points.34
GhentLiverpool
Score2660
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km834
Coast distance32 km2 km
Water distance32 km2 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 10 points.10
GhentLiverpool
Score7060
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764542
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4932
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 15 points.15
GhentLiverpool
Score5843
Museums within 10 km2423
Museums within 2 km of centre2012
Share of museums within 2 km %8352
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 12 points.12
GhentLiverpool
Score4961
Drinking venues within 4 km570977
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446651
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7867
Nightclubs within 4 km2679
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 24 points.24
GhentLiverpool
Score3458
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8760
Park area within 2 km84 hectares81 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 8 points.8
GhentLiverpool
Score5058
Tourist attractions within 2 km1925
Park area within 2 km84 hectares81 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Liverpool leads by 4 points.4
GhentLiverpool
Score4650
Notable places within 2 km5568
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
GhentLiverpool
Score6054
Price level global76.284.9
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
GhentLiverpool
Score5654
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months10
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentLiverpool
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
55 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 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

MeasureGhentLiverpool
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation12 m70 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentLiverpool
City population272,657513,441
People per km²1,7284,592
Museums within 10 km3031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8349
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.