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Brussels or Lisbon?

1,717 km apart, in Belgium and Portugal. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Brussels is the better pick in July; Lisbon in May and October to March; either in April, June and August to September.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Brussels 6° 11d 9° 9d 12° 10d 15° 6d 19° 9d 23° 8d 24° 8d 24° 9d 20° 9d 16° 10d 10° 11d 8° 12d
Lisbon 14° 8d 16° 7d 17° 8d 20° 8d 23° 3d 25° 3d 28° 0d 29° 1d 26° 3d 23° 7d 18° 9d 15° 8d
Lisbon, fare from Bengaluru ——————————₹56,898—
Pick LisbonLisbonLisboneitherLisboneitherBrusselseithereitherLisbonLisbonLisbon

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

Before you go

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

1,717 km as the crow flies, about 3h 01m in the air.Nonstop, about 6 a day · Brussels Airlines, TAP Air Portugal.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.