VacationSelector

Boston or Gdansk?

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, 1 point apart

Boston
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on value for money 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.

BostonGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 5 points.5
BostonGdansk
Score6055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6820
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 21 points.21
BostonGdansk
Score7352
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3228
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 14 points.14
BostonGdansk
Score4357
Museums within 10 km7943
Museums within 2 km of centre2728
Share of museums within 2 km %3465
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Boston leads by 22 points.22
BostonGdansk
Score5836
Drinking venues within 4 km886269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5875
Nightclubs within 4 km4330
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 8 points.8
BostonGdansk
Score5345
Protected land share 50 km %1212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %7770
Park area within 2 km116 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 22 points.22
BostonGdansk
Score5375
Tourist attractions within 2 km28108
Park area within 2 km116 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 6 points.6
BostonGdansk
Score5852
Notable places within 2 km11176
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 36 points.36
BostonGdansk
Score4379
Price level global10049
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Boston leads by 4 points.4
BostonGdansk
Score5652
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
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
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
7 h 35 m
€481-586
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
DublinDUB
6 h 20 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MunichMUC
7 h 55 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
7 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 5 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBostonGdansk
Official languagePolish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m11 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonGdansk
City population675,647487,834
People per km²2,910714
Museums within 10 km5137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre7448
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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.