VacationSelector

Bologna or Gdansk?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather 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.

BolognaGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
BolognaGdansk
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance74 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaGdansk
Score5852
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2028
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 10 points.10
BolognaGdansk
Score6757
Museums within 10 km5843
Museums within 2 km of centre4328
Share of museums within 2 km %7465
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 17 points.17
BolognaGdansk
Score5336
Drinking venues within 4 km720269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km3030
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 6 points.6
BolognaGdansk
Score3945
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %13
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km119 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 20 points.20
BolognaGdansk
Score5575
Tourist attractions within 2 km32108
Park area within 2 km119 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 8 points.8
BolognaGdansk
Score6052
Notable places within 2 km12076
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
BolognaGdansk
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155€133
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 15 points.15
BolognaGdansk
Score6752
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 5 m
€101-136
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 45 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 118 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
€96-199
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaGdansk
Official languageItalianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m11 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaGdansk
City population387,971487,834
People per km²2,754714
Museums within 10 km6637
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre6248
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.