VacationSelector

Gdansk or Sofia?

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, level with your weighting

Gdansk
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Sofia
56
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

GdanskSofia
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskSofia
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance1 km214 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 12 points.12
GdanskSofia
Score5264
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2828
Museums & heritage. Gdansk and Sofia are level on 57.
GdanskSofia
Score5757
Museums within 10 km4351
Museums within 2 km of centre2840
Share of museums within 2 km %6578
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 25 points.25
GdanskSofia
Score3661
Drinking venues within 4 km269958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7563
Nightclubs within 4 km30102
Nature & day trips. Sofia leads by 6 points.6
GdanskSofia
Score4551
Protected land share 50 km %1212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %34
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 20 points.20
GdanskSofia
Score7555
Tourist attractions within 2 km10820
Park area within 2 km61 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 5 points.5
GdanskSofia
Score5257
Notable places within 2 km76104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 20 points.20
GdanskSofia
Score7999
Price level global4921.4
Daily budget€133€77
Year-round weather. Sofia leads by 12 points.12
GdanskSofia
Score5264
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months33
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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A
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A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Sofia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sofia
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
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
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). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskSofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€100-146
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€41-70
SOF · 8 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
INI · 139 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
EindhovenEIN
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€76-170
SOF · 8 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

MeasureGdanskSofia
Official languagePolishBulgarian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m560 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskSofia
City population487,8341,213,134
People per km²7142,466
Museums within 10 km3742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4851
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.