VacationSelector

Gdansk or Ghent?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Ghent
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.

GdanskGhent
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 29 points.29
GdanskGhent
Score5526
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km208
Coast distance1 km32 km
Water distance1 km32 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 18 points.18
GdanskGhent
Score5270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348764
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2849
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 1 points.1
GdanskGhent
Score5758
Museums within 10 km4324
Museums within 2 km of centre2820
Share of museums within 2 km %6583
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Ghent leads by 13 points.13
GdanskGhent
Score3649
Drinking venues within 4 km269570
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203446
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km3026
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
GdanskGhent
Score4534
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %34
Land share of disc %7087
Park area within 2 km61 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
GdanskGhent
Score7550
Tourist attractions within 2 km10819
Park area within 2 km61 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 6 points.6
GdanskGhent
Score5246
Notable places within 2 km7655
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 19 points.19
GdanskGhent
Score7960
Price level global4976.2
Daily budget€133€180
Year-round weather. Ghent leads by 4 points.4
GdanskGhent
Score5256
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C6.4 °C to 22 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm35 mm to 79 mm
Dry months31
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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). Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskGhent
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€63-138
BRU · 56 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€41-51
BRU · 56 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureGdanskGhent
Official languagePolishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m12 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskGhent
City population487,834272,657
People per km²7141,728
Museums within 10 km3730
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre4883
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). 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.