VacationSelector

Gdansk or New Orleans?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
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.

GdanskNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 16 points.16
GdanskNew Orleans
Score5539
Swim season months07
Beaches 10 km203
Coast distance1 km21 km
Water distance1 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 9 points.9
GdanskNew Orleans
Score5261
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2825
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 12 points.12
GdanskNew Orleans
Score5745
Museums within 10 km4342
Museums within 2 km of centre2830
Share of museums within 2 km %6571
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New Orleans leads by 18 points.18
GdanskNew Orleans
Score3654
Drinking venues within 4 km269704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km3041
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 20 points.20
GdanskNew Orleans
Score4525
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7089
Park area within 2 km61 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 29 points.29
GdanskNew Orleans
Score7546
Tourist attractions within 2 km10822
Park area within 2 km61 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 12 points.12
GdanskNew Orleans
Score5240
Notable places within 2 km7640
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 36 points.36
GdanskNew Orleans
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 16 points.16
GdanskNew Orleans
Score5268
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm94 mm to 194 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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
New Orleans
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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskNew Orleans
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 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.

Before you go

MeasureGdanskNew Orleans
Official languagePolish–
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m-2 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskNew Orleans
City population487,834383,997
People per km²714423
Museums within 10 km3716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4839
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone7 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.