VacationSelector

Ghent or Venice?

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 places to eat and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

GhentVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 43 points.43
GhentVenice
Score2669
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km820
Coast distance32 km4 km
Water distance32 km4 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 25 points.25
GhentVenice
Score7045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4910
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 14 points.14
GhentVenice
Score5872
Museums within 10 km2457
Museums within 2 km of centre2045
Share of museums within 2 km %8379
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 14 points.14
GhentVenice
Score4935
Drinking venues within 4 km570342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7889
Nightclubs within 4 km263
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 17 points.17
GhentVenice
Score3417
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8770
Park area within 2 km84 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 7 points.7
GhentVenice
Score5057
Tourist attractions within 2 km1972
Park area within 2 km84 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 37 points.37
GhentVenice
Score4683
Notable places within 2 km55464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 8 points.8
GhentVenice
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 10 points.10
GhentVenice
Score5666
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm36 mm to 106 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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureGhentVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentVenice
City population272,657250,369
People per km²1,728602
Museums within 10 km3052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre8346
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.