VacationSelector

Gdansk or York?

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.

York
41
match

Wins on nightlife and 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.

GdanskYork
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskYork
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km202
Coast distance1 km50 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. York leads by 2 points.2
GdanskYork
Score5254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2831
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 11 points.11
GdanskYork
Score5746
Museums within 10 km4318
Museums within 2 km of centre2816
Share of museums within 2 km %6589
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. York leads by 7 points.7
GdanskYork
Score3643
Drinking venues within 4 km269450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7578
Nightclubs within 4 km3014
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 12 points.12
GdanskYork
Score4533
Protected land share 50 km %1217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %316
Land share of disc %7095
Park area within 2 km61 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 32 points.32
GdanskYork
Score7543
Tourist attractions within 2 km10813
Park area within 2 km61 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km33
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 13 points.13
GdanskYork
Score5239
Notable places within 2 km7637
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 25 points.25
GdanskYork
Score7954
Price level global4984.9
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. York leads by 4 points.4
GdanskYork
Score5256
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months31
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskYork
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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.

Before you go

MeasureGdanskYork
Official languagePolishEnglish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation11 m25 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskYork
City population487,834208,400
People per km²714766
Museums within 10 km3724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre4854
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.