VacationSelector

Antwerp or Gdansk?

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

Your match

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

AntwerpGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
AntwerpGdansk
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance21 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 23 points.23
AntwerpGdansk
Score7552
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4228
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 12 points.12
AntwerpGdansk
Score6957
Museums within 10 km4143
Museums within 2 km of centre2728
Share of museums within 2 km %6665
Unesco sites within 50 km92
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 23 points.23
AntwerpGdansk
Score5936
Drinking venues within 4 km866269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7675
Nightclubs within 4 km7330
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
AntwerpGdansk
Score3445
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %8070
Park area within 2 km53 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 29 points.29
AntwerpGdansk
Score4675
Tourist attractions within 2 km14108
Park area within 2 km53 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpGdansk
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8876
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpGdansk
Score6079
Price level global76.249
Daily budget€180€133
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpGdansk
Score5852
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 36 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
€41-51
BRU · 36 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 55 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 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

MeasureAntwerpGdansk
Official languageFrench, German, DutchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m11 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpGdansk
City population529,247487,834
People per km²2,542714
Museums within 10 km3837
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Distinct cuisines in the centre8048
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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.