VacationSelector

Ghent or Munich?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GhentMunich
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentMunich
Score260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km86
Coast distance32 km579 km
Water distance32 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 3 points.3
GhentMunich
Score7073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7641,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4935
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 3 points.3
GhentMunich
Score5861
Museums within 10 km2474
Museums within 2 km of centre2048
Share of museums within 2 km %8365
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Munich leads by 18 points.18
GhentMunich
Score4967
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7857
Nightclubs within 4 km26103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 14 points.14
GhentMunich
Score3448
Protected land share 50 km %717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %415
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 29 points.29
GhentMunich
Score5079
Tourist attractions within 2 km1980
Park area within 2 km84 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 22 points.22
GhentMunich
Score4668
Notable places within 2 km55196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent and Munich are level on 60.
GhentMunich
Score6060
Price level global76.275.9
Daily budget€180€163
Year-round weather. Ghent and Munich are level on 56.
GhentMunich
Score5656
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentMunich
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureGhentMunich
Official languageFrench, German, DutchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m519 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentMunich
City population272,6571,510,378
People per km²1,7284,861
Museums within 10 km3074
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8389
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. 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. 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.