VacationSelector

Gdansk or Lucerne?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GdanskLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskLucerne
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2016
Coast distance1 km669 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
GdanskLucerne
Score5247
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2825
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 17 points.17
GdanskLucerne
Score5740
Museums within 10 km4323
Museums within 2 km of centre2813
Share of museums within 2 km %6557
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
GdanskLucerne
Score3628
Drinking venues within 4 km269202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7575
Nightclubs within 4 km3011
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 20 points.20
GdanskLucerne
Score4525
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 37 points.37
GdanskLucerne
Score7538
Tourist attractions within 2 km10815
Park area within 2 km61 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 17 points.17
GdanskLucerne
Score5235
Notable places within 2 km7629
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 44 points.44
GdanskLucerne
Score7935
Price level global49110.5
Daily budget€133€248
Year-round weather. Lucerne leads by 1 points.1
GdanskLucerne
Score5253
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskLucerne
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€164-214
ZRH · 49 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 49 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureGdanskLucerne
Official languagePolishFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCE50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m436 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskLucerne
City population487,83486,234
People per km²7142,963
Museums within 10 km3714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4846
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.