VacationSelector

Gdansk or Rotterdam?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
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.

GdanskRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 18 points.18
GdanskRotterdam
Score5537
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2022
Coast distance1 km24 km
Water distance1 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 20 points.20
GdanskRotterdam
Score5272
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2846
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 3 points.3
GdanskRotterdam
Score5760
Museums within 10 km4341
Museums within 2 km of centre2820
Share of museums within 2 km %6549
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 13 points.13
GdanskRotterdam
Score3649
Drinking venues within 4 km269542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7570
Nightclubs within 4 km3040
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 3 points.3
GdanskRotterdam
Score4542
Protected land share 50 km %1210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7079
Park area within 2 km61 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 13 points.13
GdanskRotterdam
Score7562
Tourist attractions within 2 km10827
Park area within 2 km61 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 1 points.1
GdanskRotterdam
Score5251
Notable places within 2 km7674
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 21 points.21
GdanskRotterdam
Score7958
Price level global4979.2
Daily budget€133€181
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
GdanskRotterdam
Score5256
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskRotterdam
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 5 km
MadridMAD
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 15 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€155-209
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€179-192
AMS · 47 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureGdanskRotterdam
Official languagePolishDutch
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation11 m10 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskRotterdam
City population487,834664,311
People per km²7142,080
Museums within 10 km3740
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre4877
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.