VacationSelector

Budapest or Gdansk?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
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.

BudapestGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
BudapestGdansk
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km620
Coast distance10,000 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 25 points.25
BudapestGdansk
Score7752
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3528
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 7 points.7
BudapestGdansk
Score6457
Museums within 10 km14443
Museums within 2 km of centre6428
Share of museums within 2 km %4465
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 36 points.36
BudapestGdansk
Score7236
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6675
Nightclubs within 4 km9730
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
BudapestGdansk
Score4045
Protected land share 50 km %812
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km111 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 4 points.4
BudapestGdansk
Score7175
Tourist attractions within 2 km75108
Park area within 2 km111 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 17 points.17
BudapestGdansk
Score6952
Notable places within 2 km20676
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 1 points.1
BudapestGdansk
Score8079
Price level global4849
Daily budget€104€133
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 12 points.12
BudapestGdansk
Score6452
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€60-87
BUD · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 25 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 20 m
€43-56
BUD · 18 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
€64-112
BUD · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 40 m
€42-56
BUD · 18 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
3 h 40 m
no fares
BUD · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestGdansk
Official languageHungarianPolish
CurrencyForint (HUF)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m11 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestGdansk
City population1,685,209487,834
People per km²3,209714
Museums within 10 km8137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre8648
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.