VacationSelector

Maastricht or Venice?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

MaastrichtVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
MaastrichtVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km620
Coast distance118 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Maastricht leads by 3 points.3
MaastrichtVenice
Score4845
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 19 points.19
MaastrichtVenice
Score5372
Museums within 10 km2357
Museums within 2 km of centre1345
Share of museums within 2 km %5779
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Venice leads by 5 points.5
MaastrichtVenice
Score3035
Drinking venues within 4 km223342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8289
Nightclubs within 4 km133
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 20 points.20
MaastrichtVenice
Score3717
Protected land share 50 km %194
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km33 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtVenice
Score4657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1572
Park area within 2 km33 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 47 points.47
MaastrichtVenice
Score3683
Notable places within 2 km32464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 10 points.10
MaastrichtVenice
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 7 points.7
MaastrichtVenice
Score5966
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
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
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€23-126
TSF · 26 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 20 m
€155
EIN · 70 km
2 h 10 m
€95-176
TSF · 26 km
BucharestOTP, BBU
2 h 40 m
€111-224
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 55 m
€50-66
TSF · 26 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 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

MeasureMaastrichtVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtVenice
City population120,227250,369
People per km²2,000602
Museums within 10 km2152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre3346
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. 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.