VacationSelector

Maastricht or Milan?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MaastrichtMilan
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Milan are level on 0.
MaastrichtMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km64
Coast distance118 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Milan leads by 22 points.22
MaastrichtMilan
Score4870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3381,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2220
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 21 points.21
MaastrichtMilan
Score5374
Museums within 10 km2387
Museums within 2 km of centre1355
Share of museums within 2 km %5763
Unesco sites within 50 km54
Nightlife. Milan leads by 45 points.45
MaastrichtMilan
Score3075
Drinking venues within 4 km2232,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8243
Nightclubs within 4 km1370
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 28 points.28
MaastrichtMilan
Score3765
Protected land share 50 km %1930
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1111
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km33 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 31 points.31
MaastrichtMilan
Score4677
Tourist attractions within 2 km1576
Park area within 2 km33 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 38 points.38
MaastrichtMilan
Score3674
Notable places within 2 km32266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtMilan
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 5 points.5
MaastrichtMilan
Score5964
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 mm44 mm to 127 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtMilan
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 40 m
€39-54
MXP · 40 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 10 m
€141-188
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 40 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureMaastrichtMilan
Official languageDutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m138 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtMilan
City population120,2271,354,196
People per km²2,0007,453
Museums within 10 km2187
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Distinct cuisines in the centre3379

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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. 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.