VacationSelector

Gdansk or Malaga?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GdanskMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 11 points.11
GdanskMalaga
Score5566
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km2021
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
GdanskMalaga
Score5269
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3481,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2834
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 4 points.4
GdanskMalaga
Score5753
Museums within 10 km4340
Museums within 2 km of centre2835
Share of museums within 2 km %6588
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Malaga leads by 18 points.18
GdanskMalaga
Score3654
Drinking venues within 4 km269715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7568
Nightclubs within 4 km3045
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
GdanskMalaga
Score4543
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7063
Park area within 2 km61 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 22 points.22
GdanskMalaga
Score7553
Tourist attractions within 2 km10833
Park area within 2 km61 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 15 points.15
GdanskMalaga
Score5237
Notable places within 2 km7633
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
GdanskMalaga
Score7971
Price level global4960.8
Daily budget€133€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 30 points.30
GdanskMalaga
Score5282
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months35
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 0 m
€151-202
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 15 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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

MeasureGdanskMalaga
Official languagePolishSpanish
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 m18 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskMalaga
City population487,834599,063
People per km²7141,517
Museums within 10 km3732
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4865
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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.