VacationSelector

Gdansk or San Francisco?

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 good for families with your weighting.

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
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.

GdanskSan Francisco
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 5 points.5
GdanskSan Francisco
Score5560
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2044
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 31 points.31
GdanskSan Francisco
Score5283
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3482,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2839
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 13 points.13
GdanskSan Francisco
Score5744
Museums within 10 km4357
Museums within 2 km of centre2829
Share of museums within 2 km %6551
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 32 points.32
GdanskSan Francisco
Score3668
Drinking venues within 4 km2691,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7565
Nightclubs within 4 km3097
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 15 points.15
GdanskSan Francisco
Score4560
Protected land share 50 km %1217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %34
Land share of disc %7057
Park area within 2 km61 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 18 points.18
GdanskSan Francisco
Score7557
Tourist attractions within 2 km10848
Park area within 2 km61 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 11 points.11
GdanskSan Francisco
Score5263
Notable places within 2 km76147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 36 points.36
GdanskSan Francisco
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 26 points.26
GdanskSan Francisco
Score5278
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months37
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
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
San Francisco
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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskSan Francisco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 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. 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

MeasureGdanskSan Francisco
Official languagePolish–
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m16 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskSan Francisco
City population487,834873,965
People per km²7141,455
Museums within 10 km3750
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre48108
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.