VacationSelector

Edinburgh 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, 2 points apart

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on value for money 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.

EdinburghGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh and Gdansk are level on 55.
EdinburghGdansk
Score5555
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2020
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghGdansk
Score7052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3528
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh and Gdansk are level on 57.
EdinburghGdansk
Score5757
Museums within 10 km3043
Museums within 2 km of centre2228
Share of museums within 2 km %7365
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 28 points.28
EdinburghGdansk
Score6436
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km6530
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 10 points.10
EdinburghGdansk
Score3545
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %13
Land share of disc %8570
Park area within 2 km166 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 3 points.3
EdinburghGdansk
Score7275
Tourist attractions within 2 km87108
Park area within 2 km166 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 8 points.8
EdinburghGdansk
Score6052
Notable places within 2 km12676
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
EdinburghGdansk
Score5479
Price level global84.949
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Gdansk leads by 1 points.1
EdinburghGdansk
Score5152
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 35 m
€195-238
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 0 m
€106
EDI · 11 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 45 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureEdinburghGdansk
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m11 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghGdansk
City population488,050487,834
People per km²1,884714
Museums within 10 km3237
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre7848
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.