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Berlin or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Berlin
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BerlinWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Warsaw are level on 0.
BerlinWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1726
Coast distance142 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 2 points.2
BerlinWarsaw
Score7072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3334
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 16 points.16
BerlinWarsaw
Score7963
Museums within 10 km200107
Museums within 2 km of centre8160
Share of museums within 2 km %4156
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 14 points.14
BerlinWarsaw
Score7662
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3464
Nightclubs within 4 km135104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
BerlinWarsaw
Score4955
Protected land share 50 km %2027
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1619
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BerlinWarsaw
Score7670
Tourist attractions within 2 km5442
Park area within 2 km141 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 8 points.8
BerlinWarsaw
Score8476
Notable places within 2 km486299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
BerlinWarsaw
Score6079
Price level global75.949
Daily budget€163€133
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 1 points.1
BerlinWarsaw
Score6059
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months36
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 15 m
€145-185
BER · 19 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 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

MeasureBerlinWarsaw
Official languageGermanPolish
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
Elevation34 m118 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinWarsaw
City population3,782,2021,862,402
People per km²4,2443,601
Museums within 10 km158117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8676

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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. 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.