VacationSelector

Gdansk or Lyon?

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.

Lyon
52
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

GdanskLyon
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskLyon
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2026
Coast distance1 km253 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 27 points.27
GdanskLyon
Score5279
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3481,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2840
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
GdanskLyon
Score5755
Museums within 10 km4353
Museums within 2 km of centre2825
Share of museums within 2 km %6547
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 22 points.22
GdanskLyon
Score3658
Drinking venues within 4 km269866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7571
Nightclubs within 4 km3047
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 12 points.12
GdanskLyon
Score4533
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %36
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 16 points.16
GdanskLyon
Score7559
Tourist attractions within 2 km10825
Park area within 2 km61 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 2 points.2
GdanskLyon
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7686
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 17 points.17
GdanskLyon
Score7962
Price level global4973.7
Daily budget€133€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 12 points.12
GdanskLyon
Score5264
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Lyon
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
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskLyon
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€184-250
1 stop
GVA · 111 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€70-92
LYS · 20 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGdanskLyon
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m160 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskLyon
City population487,834519,127
People per km²71410,838
Museums within 10 km3742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre48148
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.