VacationSelector

Beijing or Gdansk?

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

Your match

Beijing
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BeijingGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
BeijingGdansk
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance145 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 6 points.6
BeijingGdansk
Score6357
Museums within 10 km9543
Museums within 2 km of centre1528
Share of museums within 2 km %1665
Unesco sites within 50 km62
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 10 points.10
BeijingGdansk
Score3545
Protected land share 50 km %312
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km143 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 2 points.2
BeijingGdansk
Score7775
Tourist attractions within 2 km41108
Park area within 2 km143 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km123
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
BeijingGdansk
Score5052
Notable places within 2 km6976
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing and Gdansk are level on 79.
BeijingGdansk
Score7979
Price level global4949
Daily budget—€133
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 14 points.14
BeijingGdansk
Score6652
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months83
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
8 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MunichMUC
9 h 45 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 10 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.

Before you go

MeasureBeijingGdansk
Official languagePutonghuaPolish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m11 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingGdansk
City population21,893,095487,834
People per km²1,334714
Museums within 10 km8337
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre2948
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.