VacationSelector

Gdansk or New York?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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 York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 9 points.9
GdanskNew York
Score5564
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km2017
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 43 points.43
GdanskNew York
Score5295
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3486,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2838
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 3 points.3
GdanskNew York
Score5760
Museums within 10 km43119
Museums within 2 km of centre2831
Share of museums within 2 km %6526
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. New York leads by 53 points.53
GdanskNew York
Score3689
Drinking venues within 4 km2694,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2032,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7548
Nightclubs within 4 km30192
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 6 points.6
GdanskNew York
Score4539
Protected land share 50 km %124
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7069
Park area within 2 km61 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 3 points.3
GdanskNew York
Score7572
Tourist attractions within 2 km10837
Park area within 2 km61 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. New York leads by 22 points.22
GdanskNew York
Score5274
Notable places within 2 km76268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 36 points.36
GdanskNew York
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. New York leads by 6 points.6
GdanskNew York
Score5258
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm74 mm to 112 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 York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
New York
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 York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskNew York
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 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

MeasureGdanskNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskNew York
City population487,8348,804,190
People per km²7147,256
Museums within 10 km37157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre48132
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 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.