VacationSelector

Gdansk or Geneva?

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

Your match

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Geneva
50
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

GdanskGeneva
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskGeneva
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2043
Coast distance1 km279 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 18 points.18
GdanskGeneva
Score5270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3481,028
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2835
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
GdanskGeneva
Score5752
Museums within 10 km4335
Museums within 2 km of centre2820
Share of museums within 2 km %6557
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Geneva leads by 14 points.14
GdanskGeneva
Score3650
Drinking venues within 4 km269549
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km3060
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 14 points.14
GdanskGeneva
Score4559
Protected land share 50 km %1227
Landscape blanket share 50 km %321
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares182 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 10 points.10
GdanskGeneva
Score7565
Tourist attractions within 2 km10828
Park area within 2 km61 hectares182 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 4 points.4
GdanskGeneva
Score5256
Notable places within 2 km7699
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 44 points.44
GdanskGeneva
Score7935
Price level global49110.5
Daily budget€133€248
Year-round weather. Geneva leads by 7 points.7
GdanskGeneva
Score5259
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C5.1 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm55 mm to 94 mm
Dry months30
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskGeneva
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€91-200
GVA · 5 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€184-250
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€104-203
GVA · 5 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€65-78
GVA · 5 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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

MeasureGdanskGeneva
Official languagePolishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m403 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskGeneva
City population487,834209,061
People per km²71413,148
Museums within 10 km3735
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4880
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. 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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.