VacationSelector

Kuala Lumpur or Maastricht?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage 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.

Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Kuala Lumpur leads by 40 points.40
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance38 km118 km
Water distance36 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 30 points.30
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score7848
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,358338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2822
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 2 points.2
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score5153
Museums within 10 km4123
Museums within 2 km of centre2613
Share of museums within 2 km %6357
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 37 points.37
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score6730
Drinking venues within 4 km1,308223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre735182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5682
Nightclubs within 4 km12613
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 32 points.32
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score6937
Protected land share 50 km %2819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km70 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 14 points.14
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score6046
Tourist attractions within 2 km2615
Park area within 2 km70 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Kuala Lumpur leads by 15 points.15
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score5136
Notable places within 2 km7532
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 34 points.34
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score9258
Price level global30.679.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 7 points.7
Kuala LumpurMaastricht
Score5259
Monthly daytime high31.9 °C to 33.7 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall145 mm to 360 mm41 mm to 84 mm
Dry months00
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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F
M
A
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
No sunshine record
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKuala LumpurMaastricht
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
5 h 50 m
€215-226
1 stop
KUL · 45 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 0 m
€89-104
KUL · 45 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 10 m
€203-227
KUL · 45 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 40 m
€193-209
KUL · 45 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 0 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
GuangzhouCAN
3 h 45 m
€190-211
KUL · 45 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
LUX · 141 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
4 h 15 m
€266-294
1 stop
KUL · 45 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
JeddahJED
9 h 0 m
€422-558
KUL · 45 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 5 m
€143-157
KUL · 45 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKuala LumpurMaastricht
Official languageMalayDutch
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112 or 911
Elevation50 m49 m
Main airportKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKuala LumpurMaastricht
City population9,000,280120,227
People per km²36,9322,000
Museums within 10 km2521
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre6933
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.