VacationSelector

Ghent or Verona?

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, 2 points apart

Ghent
50
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on good for families 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.

GhentVerona
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentVerona
Score260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance32 km104 km
Water distance32 km—
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 27 points.27
GhentVerona
Score7043
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4913
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
GhentVerona
Score5856
Museums within 10 km2420
Museums within 2 km of centre2019
Share of museums within 2 km %8395
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 9 points.9
GhentVerona
Score4940
Drinking venues within 4 km570416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7865
Nightclubs within 4 km269
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 2 points.2
GhentVerona
Score3436
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 19 points.19
GhentVerona
Score5069
Tourist attractions within 2 km1962
Park area within 2 km84 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Verona leads by 7 points.7
GhentVerona
Score4653
Notable places within 2 km5582
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Verona leads by 8 points.8
GhentVerona
Score6068
Price level global76.264.9
Daily budget€180€155
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 9 points.9
GhentVerona
Score5665
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm38 mm to 85 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
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Verona
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Verona
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
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 56 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 106 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 45 m
€72-114
CRL · 84 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 96 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 40 m
no fares
CRL · 84 km
1 h 45 m
€40-90
VRN · 10 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
2 h 55 m
€122-127
VCE · 106 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
2 h 25 m
€172-262
1 stop
VRN · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 106 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 106 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

MeasureGhentVerona
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 m59 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentVerona
City population272,657255,588
People per km²1,7281,285
Museums within 10 km3018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre8335
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.