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Catania or Gdansk?

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

Your match

Catania
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on good for families 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.

CataniaGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 3 points.3
CataniaGdansk
Score5855
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km520
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Gdansk leads by 3 points.3
CataniaGdansk
Score4952
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1428
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 2 points.2
CataniaGdansk
Score5957
Museums within 10 km3443
Museums within 2 km of centre2728
Share of museums within 2 km %7965
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Catania leads by 11 points.11
CataniaGdansk
Score4736
Drinking venues within 4 km537269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7575
Nightclubs within 4 km1830
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 14 points.14
CataniaGdansk
Score3145
Protected land share 50 km %1012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %6170
Park area within 2 km11 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 39 points.39
CataniaGdansk
Score3675
Tourist attractions within 2 km25108
Park area within 2 km11 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 13 points.13
CataniaGdansk
Score3952
Notable places within 2 km3776
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
CataniaGdansk
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155€133
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 25 points.25
CataniaGdansk
Score7752
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaGdansk
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 35 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€195-231
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 35 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

MeasureCataniaGdansk
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
Elevation7 m11 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaGdansk
City population311,584487,834
People per km²1,704714
Museums within 10 km2537
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre3048
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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). 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.