VacationSelector

Gdansk or Lima?

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 good for families and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GdanskLima
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 18 points.18
GdanskLima
Score5537
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km2012
Coast distance1 km6 km
Water distance1 km6 km
Places to eat. Gdansk and Lima are level on 52.
GdanskLima
Score5252
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2814
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 7 points.7
GdanskLima
Score5764
Museums within 10 km4389
Museums within 2 km of centre2847
Share of museums within 2 km %6553
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lima leads by 9 points.9
GdanskLima
Score3645
Drinking venues within 4 km269409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7543
Nightclubs within 4 km3063
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 18 points.18
GdanskLima
Score4527
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7051
Park area within 2 km61 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 19 points.19
GdanskLima
Score7556
Tourist attractions within 2 km10825
Park area within 2 km61 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 6 points.6
GdanskLima
Score5246
Notable places within 2 km7654
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 1 points.1
GdanskLima
Score7980
Price level global4947.7
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 40 points.40
GdanskLima
Score5292
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months312
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
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskLima
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 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

MeasureGdanskLima
Official languagePolishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCE50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation11 m154 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskLima
City population487,8349,943,800
People per km²7143,721
Museums within 10 km3746
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4833
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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. 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.