VacationSelector

Gdansk or London?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
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.

GdanskLondon
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskLondon
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2047
Coast distance1 km43 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. London leads by 36 points.36
GdanskLondon
Score5288
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3483,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2840
Museums & heritage. London leads by 15 points.15
GdanskLondon
Score5772
Museums within 10 km43148
Museums within 2 km of centre2849
Share of museums within 2 km %6533
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. London leads by 59 points.59
GdanskLondon
Score3695
Drinking venues within 4 km2695,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2032,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7546
Nightclubs within 4 km30312
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
GdanskLondon
Score4540
Protected land share 50 km %1216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %314
Land share of disc %7097
Park area within 2 km61 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk and London are level on 75.
GdanskLondon
Score7575
Tourist attractions within 2 km10885
Park area within 2 km61 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. London leads by 37 points.37
GdanskLondon
Score5289
Notable places within 2 km76649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
GdanskLondon
Score7954
Price level global4984.9
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. London leads by 11 points.11
GdanskLondon
Score5263
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months31
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
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). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskLondon
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€66-100
LGW · 40 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureGdanskLondon
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 m4 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskLondon
City population487,8348,799,728
People per km²7145,598
Museums within 10 km37215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre48116
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.