VacationSelector

Gdansk or Melbourne?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on nightlife and 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.

GdanskMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk and Melbourne are level on 55.
GdanskMelbourne
Score5555
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2019
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 23 points.23
GdanskMelbourne
Score5275
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3481,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2829
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
GdanskMelbourne
Score5749
Museums within 10 km4342
Museums within 2 km of centre2824
Share of museums within 2 km %6557
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 38 points.38
GdanskMelbourne
Score3674
Drinking venues within 4 km2691,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2031,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7562
Nightclubs within 4 km30124
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
GdanskMelbourne
Score4543
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7081
Park area within 2 km61 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 15 points.15
GdanskMelbourne
Score7560
Tourist attractions within 2 km10826
Park area within 2 km61 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
GdanskMelbourne
Score5257
Notable places within 2 km76103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 29 points.29
GdanskMelbourne
Score7950
Price level global4990.2
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 24 points.24
GdanskMelbourne
Score5276
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureGdanskMelbourne
Official languagePolishEnglish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCE50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation11 m31 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskMelbourne
City population487,8345,350,705
People per km²714535
Museums within 10 km3742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4886
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.