VacationSelector

Maastricht or York?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MaastrichtYork
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and York are level on 0.
MaastrichtYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km62
Coast distance118 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. York leads by 6 points.6
MaastrichtYork
Score4854
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2231
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 7 points.7
MaastrichtYork
Score5346
Museums within 10 km2318
Museums within 2 km of centre1316
Share of museums within 2 km %5789
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. York leads by 13 points.13
MaastrichtYork
Score3043
Drinking venues within 4 km223450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8278
Nightclubs within 4 km1314
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
MaastrichtYork
Score3733
Protected land share 50 km %1917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1116
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km33 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 3 points.3
MaastrichtYork
Score4643
Tourist attractions within 2 km1513
Park area within 2 km33 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. York leads by 3 points.3
MaastrichtYork
Score3639
Notable places within 2 km3237
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
MaastrichtYork
Score5854
Price level global79.284.9
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 3 points.3
MaastrichtYork
Score5956
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtYork
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
FaroFAO
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
KrakowKRK
1 h 50 m
€109-130
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BridgetownBGI
9 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 90 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
3 h 40 m
no fares
CRL · 97 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureMaastrichtYork
Official languageDutchEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112 or 999
Elevation49 m25 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtYork
City population120,227208,400
People per km²2,000766
Museums within 10 km2124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre3354

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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. 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. 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.