VacationSelector

Gdansk or Milan?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

GdanskMilan
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskMilan
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km204
Coast distance1 km120 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Milan leads by 18 points.18
GdanskMilan
Score5270
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3481,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2820
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 17 points.17
GdanskMilan
Score5774
Museums within 10 km4387
Museums within 2 km of centre2855
Share of museums within 2 km %6563
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Milan leads by 39 points.39
GdanskMilan
Score3675
Drinking venues within 4 km2692,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7543
Nightclubs within 4 km3070
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 20 points.20
GdanskMilan
Score4565
Protected land share 50 km %1230
Landscape blanket share 50 km %311
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 2 points.2
GdanskMilan
Score7577
Tourist attractions within 2 km10876
Park area within 2 km61 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 22 points.22
GdanskMilan
Score5274
Notable places within 2 km76266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
GdanskMilan
Score7968
Price level global4964.9
Daily budget€133€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 12 points.12
GdanskMilan
Score5264
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Milan
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Milan
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
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskMilan
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 40 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€39-80
BGY · 46 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
BGY · 46 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
MXP · 40 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

MeasureGdanskMilan
Official languagePolishItalian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m138 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskMilan
City population487,8341,354,196
People per km²7147,453
Museums within 10 km3787
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre4879
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.