VacationSelector

Florence 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, 1 point apart

Florence
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

FlorenceGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
FlorenceGdansk
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance78 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 7 points.7
FlorenceGdansk
Score5952
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1528
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceGdansk
Score8257
Museums within 10 km13243
Museums within 2 km of centre9328
Share of museums within 2 km %7065
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Florence leads by 20 points.20
FlorenceGdansk
Score5636
Drinking venues within 4 km818269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7375
Nightclubs within 4 km3430
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 7 points.7
FlorenceGdansk
Score3845
Protected land share 50 km %912
Landscape blanket share 50 km %23
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km86 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 23 points.23
FlorenceGdansk
Score5275
Tourist attractions within 2 km30108
Park area within 2 km86 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 23 points.23
FlorenceGdansk
Score7552
Notable places within 2 km29276
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceGdansk
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155€133
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 16 points.16
FlorenceGdansk
Score6852
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months23
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
1 h 20 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

MeasureFlorenceGdansk
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
Elevation50 m11 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceGdansk
City population360,930487,834
People per km²3,528714
Museums within 10 km14037
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6248
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). 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. 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.