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Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie
Vilnius Cathedral, Vilnius
VilniusVilnius Cathedral

Photos: Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Vilnius by Scotch Mist, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ghent or Vilnius?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Ghent for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’s own page.

Choose Vilnius for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vilnius’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Ghent 25, Vilnius 17: Ghent leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Ghent 62, Vilnius 50: Ghent leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Ghent 72, Vilnius 66: Ghent leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Ghent 55, Vilnius 46: Ghent leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ghent 35, Vilnius 52: Vilnius leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Ghent 88, Vilnius 60: Ghent leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Ghent 50, Vilnius 44: Ghent leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Ghent 78, Vilnius 68: Ghent leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Ghent 50, Vilnius 38: Ghent leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Ghent 38, Vilnius 64: Vilnius leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ghent 60, Vilnius 54: Ghent leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ghent 33, Vilnius 34: Vilnius leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ghent and Vilnius.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Ghent
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

Vilnius
49match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Vilnius in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
90 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ghent has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGhentVilnius
Official languageFrench, German, DutchLithuanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m98 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentVilnius
City population272,657619,405
People per km²1,7281,545
Museums within 10 km3031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.