VacationSelector

Frankfurt 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

Frankfurt
57
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

FrankfurtGdansk
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
FrankfurtGdansk
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance327 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 18 points.18
FrankfurtGdansk
Score7052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3128
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 12 points.12
FrankfurtGdansk
Score6957
Museums within 10 km7943
Museums within 2 km of centre4328
Share of museums within 2 km %5465
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 23 points.23
FrankfurtGdansk
Score5936
Drinking venues within 4 km931269
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km5630
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 19 points.19
FrankfurtGdansk
Score6445
Protected land share 50 km %2812
Landscape blanket share 50 km %113
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km124 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 7 points.7
FrankfurtGdansk
Score6875
Tourist attractions within 2 km45108
Park area within 2 km124 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 9 points.9
FrankfurtGdansk
Score6152
Notable places within 2 km12976
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 19 points.19
FrankfurtGdansk
Score6079
Price level global75.949
Daily budget€163€133
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 10 points.10
FrankfurtGdansk
Score6252
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C0.7 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm37 mm to 87 mm
Dry months13
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtGdansk
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
€184-221
2 stops
FRA · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 30 m
€173-202
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 5 m
€140-202
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€142-154
FRA · 13 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 10 m
€147-192
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€221-263
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
€264-346
FRA · 13 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 35 m
no fares
FRA · 13 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFrankfurtGdansk
Official languageGermanPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation101 m11 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtGdansk
City population775,790487,834
People per km²3,124714
Museums within 10 km5337
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre7148
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.