VacationSelector

Dubai or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Dubai
55
match

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

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

DubaiWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
DubaiWarsaw
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km5226
Coast distance0 km238 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
DubaiWarsaw
Score6672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0861,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2634
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
DubaiWarsaw
Score3863
Museums within 10 km26107
Museums within 2 km of centre1860
Share of museums within 2 km %6956
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 9 points.9
DubaiWarsaw
Score5362
Drinking venues within 4 km6011,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5164
Nightclubs within 4 km84104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 37 points.37
DubaiWarsaw
Score1855
Protected land share 50 km %427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 21 points.21
DubaiWarsaw
Score4970
Tourist attractions within 2 km3742
Park area within 2 km13 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 39 points.39
DubaiWarsaw
Score3776
Notable places within 2 km33299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 10 points.10
DubaiWarsaw
Score6979
Price level global63.449
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 7 points.7
DubaiWarsaw
Score6659
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months126
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
No sunshine record
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ViennaVIE
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€318-438
DXB · 7 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MunichMUC
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New DelhiDEL
3 h 15 m
€247-331
DXB · 7 km
6 h 50 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

MeasureDubaiWarsaw
Official languageArabicPolish
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m118 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiWarsaw
City population3,944,7511,862,402
People per km²3,601
Museums within 10 km14117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5276
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.