VacationSelector

Ghent or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

GhentWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentWarsaw
Score260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km826
Coast distance32 km238 km
Water distance32 km—
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 2 points.2
GhentWarsaw
Score7072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7641,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4934
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 5 points.5
GhentWarsaw
Score5863
Museums within 10 km24107
Museums within 2 km of centre2060
Share of museums within 2 km %8356
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
GhentWarsaw
Score4962
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km26104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 21 points.21
GhentWarsaw
Score3455
Protected land share 50 km %727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %419
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 20 points.20
GhentWarsaw
Score5070
Tourist attractions within 2 km1942
Park area within 2 km84 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 30 points.30
GhentWarsaw
Score4676
Notable places within 2 km55299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
GhentWarsaw
Score6079
Price level global76.249
Daily budget€180€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
GhentWarsaw
Score5659
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months16
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
€179-232
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 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

MeasureGhentWarsaw
Official languageFrench, German, DutchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m118 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentWarsaw
City population272,6571,862,402
People per km²1,7283,601
Museums within 10 km30117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8376
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.