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Gdansk or Glasgow?

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 good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

GdanskGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 19 points.19
GdanskGlasgow
Score5536
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km203
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 11 points.11
GdanskGlasgow
Score5263
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2829
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 12 points.12
GdanskGlasgow
Score5745
Museums within 10 km4332
Museums within 2 km of centre2813
Share of museums within 2 km %6541
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 27 points.27
GdanskGlasgow
Score3663
Drinking venues within 4 km2691,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7561
Nightclubs within 4 km3073
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 7 points.7
GdanskGlasgow
Score4538
Protected land share 50 km %1216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %312
Land share of disc %7091
Park area within 2 km61 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 34 points.34
GdanskGlasgow
Score7541
Tourist attractions within 2 km10813
Park area within 2 km61 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 1 points.1
GdanskGlasgow
Score5253
Notable places within 2 km7680
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
GdanskGlasgow
Score7954
Price level global4984.9
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. Gdansk leads by 9 points.9
GdanskGlasgow
Score5243
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm102 mm to 207 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskGlasgow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 40 m
€171-239
1 stop
GLA · 11 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 56 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureGdanskGlasgow
Official languagePolishEnglish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation11 m21 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskGlasgow
City population487,834626,410
People per km²714190
Museums within 10 km3729
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4854
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.