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Ghent or Valencia?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
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.

GhentValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 41 points.41
GhentValencia
Score2667
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km812
Coast distance32 km3 km
Water distance32 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
GhentValencia
Score7078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7641,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4933
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 3 points.3
GhentValencia
Score5855
Museums within 10 km2459
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %8344
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 21 points.21
GhentValencia
Score4970
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7863
Nightclubs within 4 km26108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 19 points.19
GhentValencia
Score3453
Protected land share 50 km %710
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8764
Park area within 2 km84 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 8 points.8
GhentValencia
Score5042
Tourist attractions within 2 km1912
Park area within 2 km84 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 6 points.6
GhentValencia
Score4652
Notable places within 2 km5578
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 11 points.11
GhentValencia
Score6071
Price level global76.260.8
Daily budget€180€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
GhentValencia
Score5684
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months18
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentValencia
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 56 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 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

MeasureGhentValencia
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish
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 m15 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentValencia
City population272,657840,792
People per km²1,7286,242
Museums within 10 km3046
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre8392
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.