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Barcelona or Gdansk?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

BarcelonaGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 10 points.10
BarcelonaGdansk
Score6555
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2020
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 38 points.38
BarcelonaGdansk
Score9052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4128
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 11 points.11
BarcelonaGdansk
Score6857
Museums within 10 km10543
Museums within 2 km of centre4928
Share of museums within 2 km %4765
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 46 points.46
BarcelonaGdansk
Score8236
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6175
Nightclubs within 4 km24530
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 5 points.5
BarcelonaGdansk
Score5045
Protected land share 50 km %1012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %5170
Park area within 2 km49 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 10 points.10
BarcelonaGdansk
Score6575
Tourist attractions within 2 km60108
Park area within 2 km49 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 21 points.21
BarcelonaGdansk
Score7352
Notable places within 2 km25876
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
BarcelonaGdansk
Score7179
Price level global60.849
Daily budget€122€133
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 26 points.26
BarcelonaGdansk
Score7852
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months53
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 45 m
€108-166
1 stop
BCN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€66-190
BCN · 13 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 25 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€54-89
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 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

MeasureBarcelonaGdansk
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m11 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaGdansk
City population1,731,649487,834
People per km²17,094714
Museums within 10 km9537
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre12848
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.