VacationSelector

Ghent or Pisa?

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

Your match

Ghent
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

GhentPisa
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 5 points.5
GhentPisa
Score2621
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance32 km10 km
Water distance32 km10 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 36 points.36
GhentPisa
Score7034
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km499
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
GhentPisa
Score5855
Museums within 10 km2427
Museums within 2 km of centre2022
Share of museums within 2 km %8381
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 21 points.21
GhentPisa
Score4928
Drinking venues within 4 km570232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7888
Nightclubs within 4 km263
Nature & day trips. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
GhentPisa
Score3439
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8765
Park area within 2 km84 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
GhentPisa
Score5047
Tourist attractions within 2 km1920
Park area within 2 km84 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
GhentPisa
Score4647
Notable places within 2 km5558
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 8 points.8
GhentPisa
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
GhentPisa
Score5670
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months12
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
€71-157
CRL · 84 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 65 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 30 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€115-161
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 40 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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

MeasureGhentPisa
Official languageFrench, German, DutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m4 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentPisa
City population272,65788,737
People per km²1,728479
Museums within 10 km3027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre8329
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. 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.