VacationSelector

Gdansk or Miami?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

GdanskMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 40 points.40
GdanskMiami
Score5595
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km2020
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 13 points.13
GdanskMiami
Score5265
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2829
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 34 points.34
GdanskMiami
Score5723
Museums within 10 km4328
Museums within 2 km of centre286
Share of museums within 2 km %6521
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Miami leads by 14 points.14
GdanskMiami
Score3650
Drinking venues within 4 km269538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7553
Nightclubs within 4 km3063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 27 points.27
GdanskMiami
Score4572
Protected land share 50 km %1216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7048
Park area within 2 km61 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 31 points.31
GdanskMiami
Score7544
Tourist attractions within 2 km10814
Park area within 2 km61 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 10 points.10
GdanskMiami
Score5242
Notable places within 2 km7645
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 36 points.36
GdanskMiami
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 22 points.22
GdanskMiami
Score5274
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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 2026-09 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

MeasureGdanskMiami
Official languagePolish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m2 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskMiami
City population487,834442,241
People per km²7143,046
Museums within 10 km3717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4839
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.