VacationSelector

Gdansk or Kyoto?

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, 2 points apart

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Kyoto
58
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.

GdanskKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 38 points.38
GdanskKyoto
Score5517
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 32 points.32
GdanskKyoto
Score5284
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3485,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2822
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 15 points.15
GdanskKyoto
Score5772
Museums within 10 km43132
Museums within 2 km of centre2851
Share of museums within 2 km %6539
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 44 points.44
GdanskKyoto
Score3680
Drinking venues within 4 km2693,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2032,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7573
Nightclubs within 4 km3026
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 23 points.23
GdanskKyoto
Score4522
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %32
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 9 points.9
GdanskKyoto
Score7566
Tourist attractions within 2 km10862
Park area within 2 km61 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Gdansk and Kyoto are level on 52.
GdanskKyoto
Score5252
Notable places within 2 km7679
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 9 points.9
GdanskKyoto
Score7970
Price level global4962.4
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
GdanskKyoto
Score5262
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm40 mm to 232 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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskKyoto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 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

MeasureGdanskKyoto
Official languagePolishJapanese
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation11 m51 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskKyoto
City population487,8341,463,723
People per km²7141,768
Museums within 10 km3776
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre4889
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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.