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Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
MaastrichtSint Servaasbrug over the Maas
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Maastricht or St. Pete Beach?

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 Maastricht for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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. Maastricht 8, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Maastricht 58, St. Pete Beach 40: Maastricht leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Maastricht 60, St. Pete Beach 18: Maastricht leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Maastricht 42, St. Pete Beach 28: Maastricht leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Maastricht 58, St. Pete Beach 57: Maastricht leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Maastricht 77, St. Pete Beach 58: Maastricht leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Maastricht 55, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Maastricht 74, St. Pete Beach 30: Maastricht leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Maastricht 60, St. Pete Beach 20: Maastricht leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Maastricht 38, St. Pete Beach 32: Maastricht leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Maastricht 40, St. Pete Beach 20: Maastricht leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Maastricht 52, St. Pete Beach 42: Maastricht leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Maastricht and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Maastricht
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MaastrichtSt. Pete Beach

Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMaastrichtSt. Pete Beach
Official languageDutch-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation49 m2 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtSt. Pete Beach
City population120,2278,879
People per km²2,000173
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.