VacationSelector

Catania or Warsaw?

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 beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

CataniaWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 58 points.58
CataniaWarsaw
Score580
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km526
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 23 points.23
CataniaWarsaw
Score4972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6371,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1434
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 4 points.4
CataniaWarsaw
Score5963
Museums within 10 km34107
Museums within 2 km of centre2760
Share of museums within 2 km %7956
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 15 points.15
CataniaWarsaw
Score4762
Drinking venues within 4 km5371,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7564
Nightclubs within 4 km18104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 24 points.24
CataniaWarsaw
Score3155
Protected land share 50 km %1027
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km11 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 34 points.34
CataniaWarsaw
Score3670
Tourist attractions within 2 km2542
Park area within 2 km11 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 37 points.37
CataniaWarsaw
Score3976
Notable places within 2 km37299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 11 points.11
CataniaWarsaw
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155€133
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 18 points.18
CataniaWarsaw
Score7759
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months56
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaWarsaw
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 40 m
€38-100
CTA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 5 m
€115-151
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureCataniaWarsaw
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 m118 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaWarsaw
City population311,5841,862,402
People per km²1,7043,601
Museums within 10 km25117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3076
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.