VacationSelector

Gdansk or Ljubljana?

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.

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

GdanskLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskLjubljana
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2010
Coast distance1 km72 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Ljubljana leads by 3 points.3
GdanskLjubljana
Score5255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2840
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
GdanskLjubljana
Score5755
Museums within 10 km4326
Museums within 2 km of centre2823
Share of museums within 2 km %6588
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 9 points.9
GdanskLjubljana
Score3645
Drinking venues within 4 km269458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km3024
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
GdanskLjubljana
Score4540
Protected land share 50 km %1213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %35
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 37 points.37
GdanskLjubljana
Score7538
Tourist attractions within 2 km10812
Park area within 2 km61 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 6 points.6
GdanskLjubljana
Score5258
Notable places within 2 km76109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 7 points.7
GdanskLjubljana
Score7972
Price level global4959.6
Daily budget€133€131
Year-round weather. Ljubljana leads by 4 points.4
GdanskLjubljana
Score5256
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
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). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskLjubljana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€189-245
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
SplitSPU
2 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 20 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

MeasureGdanskLjubljana
Official languagePolishSlovene
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m309 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskLjubljana
City population487,834284,293
People per km²7141,736
Museums within 10 km3714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre4863
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.