VacationSelector

Gdansk or Pisa?

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.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on 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.

GdanskPisa
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 34 points.34
GdanskPisa
Score5521
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km201
Coast distance1 km10 km
Water distance1 km10 km
Places to eat. Gdansk leads by 18 points.18
GdanskPisa
Score5234
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km289
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
GdanskPisa
Score5755
Museums within 10 km4327
Museums within 2 km of centre2822
Share of museums within 2 km %6581
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
GdanskPisa
Score3628
Drinking venues within 4 km269232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7588
Nightclubs within 4 km303
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 6 points.6
GdanskPisa
Score4539
Protected land share 50 km %129
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7065
Park area within 2 km61 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 28 points.28
GdanskPisa
Score7547
Tourist attractions within 2 km10820
Park area within 2 km61 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
GdanskPisa
Score5247
Notable places within 2 km7658
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
GdanskPisa
Score7968
Price level global4964.9
Daily budget€133€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 18 points.18
GdanskPisa
Score5270
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months32
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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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Pisa
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 4 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureGdanskPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskPisa
City population487,83488,737
People per km²714479
Museums within 10 km3727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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. 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.