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A galleon on the Motława below the old crane, Gdansk
GdanskA galleon on the Motława below the old crane
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Gdansk by Nikater, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Gdansk or Los Angeles?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Gdansk for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Gdansk’s own page.

Choose Los Angeles for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Gdansk 40, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Gdansk 50, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Gdansk 68, Los Angeles 66: Gdansk leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Gdansk 52, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Gdansk 58, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Gdansk 62, Los Angeles 60: Gdansk leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Gdansk 62, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Gdansk 72, Los Angeles 25: Gdansk leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Gdansk 42, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Gdansk 68, Los Angeles 24: Gdansk leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Gdansk 52, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Gdansk 36, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Gdansk and Los Angeles.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Gdansk
55match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Gdansk in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Gdansk has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Gdansk's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Elblag.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGdanskLos Angeles
Official languagePolish-
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m106 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre72 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskLos Angeles
City population487,8343,898,747
People per km²7142,994
Museums within 10 km3439
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.