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Gdansk or Thessaloniki?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

GdanskThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk and Thessaloniki are level on 55.
GdanskThessaloniki
Score5555
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km204
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Gdansk leads by 2 points.2
GdanskThessaloniki
Score5250
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2815
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 8 points.8
GdanskThessaloniki
Score5749
Museums within 10 km4334
Museums within 2 km of centre2822
Share of museums within 2 km %6565
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.31
GdanskThessaloniki
Score3667
Drinking venues within 4 km2691,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7557
Nightclubs within 4 km3061
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
GdanskThessaloniki
Score4565
Protected land share 50 km %1225
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7083
Park area within 2 km61 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 34 points.34
GdanskThessaloniki
Score7541
Tourist attractions within 2 km10816
Park area within 2 km61 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
GdanskThessaloniki
Score5256
Notable places within 2 km7698
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
GdanskThessaloniki
Score7974
Price level global4955.8
Daily budget€133€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.20
GdanskThessaloniki
Score5272
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months39
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskThessaloniki
AthensATH
2 h 50 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 10 m
€138-200
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
LarnacaLCA
3 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€105-145
SKG · 14 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKG · 14 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

MeasureGdanskThessaloniki
Official languagePolishGreek
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 m6 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskThessaloniki
City population487,834309,617
People per km²71416,042
Museums within 10 km3731
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4845
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.