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Ghent or Tampa?

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 museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

GhentTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 49 points.49
GhentTampa
Score2675
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km810
Coast distance32 km1 km
Water distance32 km1 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 16 points.16
GhentTampa
Score7054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4931
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 31 points.31
GhentTampa
Score5827
Museums within 10 km2413
Museums within 2 km of centre2010
Share of museums within 2 km %8377
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 10 points.10
GhentTampa
Score4939
Drinking venues within 4 km570324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7870
Nightclubs within 4 km2626
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 4 points.4
GhentTampa
Score3430
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8772
Park area within 2 km84 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 20 points.20
GhentTampa
Score5030
Tourist attractions within 2 km193
Park area within 2 km84 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 25 points.25
GhentTampa
Score4621
Notable places within 2 km5513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ghent leads by 17 points.17
GhentTampa
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 19 points.19
GhentTampa
Score5675
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months11
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureGhentTampa
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch–
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation12 m30 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentTampa
City population272,657384,959
People per km²1,728848
Museums within 10 km306
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8347
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.