VacationSelector

Beijing or Warsaw?

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 good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BeijingWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Warsaw are level on 0.
BeijingWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km026
Coast distance145 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing and Warsaw are level on 63.
BeijingWarsaw
Score6363
Museums within 10 km95107
Museums within 2 km of centre1560
Share of museums within 2 km %1656
Unesco sites within 50 km61
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 20 points.20
BeijingWarsaw
Score3555
Protected land share 50 km %327
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km143 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 7 points.7
BeijingWarsaw
Score7770
Tourist attractions within 2 km4142
Park area within 2 km143 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km125
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 26 points.26
BeijingWarsaw
Score5076
Notable places within 2 km69299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing and Warsaw are level on 79.
BeijingWarsaw
Score7979
Price level global4949
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 7 points.7
BeijingWarsaw
Score6659
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months86
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
10 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureBeijingWarsaw
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 m118 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingWarsaw
City population21,893,0951,862,402
People per km²1,3343,601
Museums within 10 km83117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre2976

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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. 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.