VacationSelector

Gdansk or Monaco?

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 good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

GdanskMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
GdanskMonaco
Score5573
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2050
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Gdansk leads by 13 points.13
GdanskMonaco
Score5239
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2816
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 19 points.19
GdanskMonaco
Score5738
Museums within 10 km4323
Museums within 2 km of centre288
Share of museums within 2 km %6535
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Gdansk leads by 28 points.28
GdanskMonaco
Score368
Drinking venues within 4 km26969
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre20363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7591
Nightclubs within 4 km307
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 8 points.8
GdanskMonaco
Score4553
Protected land share 50 km %1224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %317
Land share of disc %7054
Park area within 2 km61 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 40 points.40
GdanskMonaco
Score7535
Tourist attractions within 2 km10814
Park area within 2 km61 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 12 points.12
GdanskMonaco
Score5264
Notable places within 2 km76154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 22 points.22
GdanskMonaco
Score5274
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months33
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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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€165-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€107-192
NCE · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€174-218
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€125-148
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 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

MeasureGdanskMonaco
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m68 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskMonaco
City population487,83438,857
People per km²71418,503
Museums within 10 km3714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4829
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.