VacationSelector

Ghent or Split?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Ghent
50
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

GhentSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 47 points.47
GhentSplit
Score2673
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km887
Coast distance32 km0 km
Water distance32 km0 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 32 points.32
GhentSplit
Score7038
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4915
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
GhentSplit
Score5852
Museums within 10 km2418
Museums within 2 km of centre2016
Share of museums within 2 km %8389
Unesco sites within 50 km54
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
GhentSplit
Score4941
Drinking venues within 4 km570379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7869
Nightclubs within 4 km2623
Nature & day trips. Split leads by 4 points.4
GhentSplit
Score3438
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8762
Park area within 2 km84 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 24 points.24
GhentSplit
Score5026
Tourist attractions within 2 km199
Park area within 2 km84 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 4 points.4
GhentSplit
Score4642
Notable places within 2 km5543
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 20 points.20
GhentSplit
Score6080
Price level global76.248.5
Daily budget€180€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 13 points.13
GhentSplit
Score5669
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm25 mm to 117 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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 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

MeasureGhentSplit
Official languageFrench, German, DutchCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentSplit
City population272,657160,577
People per km²1,728
Museums within 10 km3011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Distinct cuisines in the centre8331
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.