VacationSelector

Gdansk or Helsinki?

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

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Helsinki
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

GdanskHelsinki
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 5 points.5
GdanskHelsinki
Score5560
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20157
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 19 points.19
GdanskHelsinki
Score5271
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3481,005
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2838
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
GdanskHelsinki
Score5749
Museums within 10 km4357
Museums within 2 km of centre2823
Share of museums within 2 km %6540
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 20 points.20
GdanskHelsinki
Score3656
Drinking venues within 4 km269807
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203607
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7575
Nightclubs within 4 km3040
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 3 points.3
GdanskHelsinki
Score4542
Protected land share 50 km %123
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7053
Park area within 2 km61 hectares185 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 17 points.17
GdanskHelsinki
Score7558
Tourist attractions within 2 km10820
Park area within 2 km61 hectares185 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 21 points.21
GdanskHelsinki
Score5273
Notable places within 2 km76257
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 23 points.23
GdanskHelsinki
Score7956
Price level global4981.6
Daily budget€133€184
Year-round weather. Gdansk leads by 4 points.4
GdanskHelsinki
Score5248
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm32 mm to 84 mm
Dry months33
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
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). Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskHelsinki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€145-254
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€86-113
HEL · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 84 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

MeasureGdanskHelsinki
Official languagePolishFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m17 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskHelsinki
City population487,834694,392
People per km²7143,239
Museums within 10 km3774
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4878
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. 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.