VacationSelector

Gdansk or Ottawa?

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 beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

GdanskOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskOttawa
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km209
Coast distance1 km423 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 12 points.12
GdanskOttawa
Score5264
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2834
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
GdanskOttawa
Score5732
Museums within 10 km4315
Museums within 2 km of centre288
Share of museums within 2 km %6553
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
GdanskOttawa
Score3644
Drinking venues within 4 km269432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km3035
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 4 points.4
GdanskOttawa
Score4541
Protected land share 50 km %128
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 29 points.29
GdanskOttawa
Score7546
Tourist attractions within 2 km10811
Park area within 2 km61 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
GdanskOttawa
Score5250
Notable places within 2 km7671
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
GdanskOttawa
Score7954
Price level global4984
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. Ottawa leads by 1 points.1
GdanskOttawa
Score5253
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Ottawa
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
Ottawa
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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskOttawa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureGdanskOttawa
Official languagePolishFrench, English
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m70 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskOttawa
City population487,8341,017,449
People per km²714366
Museums within 10 km3720
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4862
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.