VacationSelector

Liverpool or Maastricht?

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

Your match

Liverpool
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

LiverpoolMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 60 points.60
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km346
Coast distance2 km118 km
Water distance2 km—
Places to eat. Liverpool leads by 12 points.12
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score6048
Restaurants within 2 km of centre542338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 10 points.10
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score4353
Museums within 10 km2323
Museums within 2 km of centre1213
Share of museums within 2 km %5257
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 31 points.31
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score6130
Drinking venues within 4 km977223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6782
Nightclubs within 4 km7913
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 21 points.21
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score5837
Protected land share 50 km %—19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %60100
Park area within 2 km81 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 12 points.12
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score5846
Tourist attractions within 2 km2515
Park area within 2 km81 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Liverpool leads by 14 points.14
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score5036
Notable places within 2 km6832
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score5458
Price level global84.979.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 5 points.5
LiverpoolMaastricht
Score5459
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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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Daytime high, °C
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolMaastricht
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
FaroFAO
2 h 50 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
KrakowKRK
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BridgetownBGI
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 90 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

MeasureLiverpoolMaastricht
Official languageEnglishDutch
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112 or 911
Elevation70 m49 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolMaastricht
City population513,441120,227
People per km²4,5922,000
Museums within 10 km3121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre4933
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. 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.