VacationSelector

Bucharest 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

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Gdansk
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.

BucharestGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
BucharestGdansk
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance198 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestGdansk
Score6752
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4128
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
BucharestGdansk
Score4957
Museums within 10 km7343
Museums within 2 km of centre4028
Share of museums within 2 km %5565
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestGdansk
Score6236
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5375
Nightclubs within 4 km8030
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 9 points.9
BucharestGdansk
Score3645
Protected land share 50 km %412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km133 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 7 points.7
BucharestGdansk
Score6875
Tourist attractions within 2 km45108
Park area within 2 km133 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BucharestGdansk
Score6152
Notable places within 2 km13076
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 6 points.6
BucharestGdansk
Score8579
Price level global40.949
Daily budget€99€133
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 11 points.11
BucharestGdansk
Score6352
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months13
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 0 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 30 m
€118-143
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€130-202
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 45 m
€140-237
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 5 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
4 h 30 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBucharestGdansk
Official languageRomanianPolish
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m11 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestGdansk
City population1,716,961487,834
People per km²7,597714
Museums within 10 km4137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre6848
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.