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Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Gold Coast or Warsaw?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Gold Coast for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Gold Coast’s own page.

Choose Warsaw for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Gold Coast 92, Warsaw 12: Gold Coast leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Gold Coast 47, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Gold Coast 15, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Gold Coast 55, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Gold Coast 82, Warsaw 47: Gold Coast leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Gold Coast and Warsaw are level on 52.
Good for families. Gold Coast 89, Warsaw 62: Gold Coast leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Gold Coast 45, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Gold Coast 40, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Gold Coast 35, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Gold Coast 30, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Gold Coast 42, Warsaw 35: Gold Coast leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Gold Coast and Warsaw.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Gold Coast
52match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Gold CoastWarsaw

Where the figures come from

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGold CoastWarsaw
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation12 m118 m
Main airportGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGold CoastWarsaw
City population607,6651,862,402
People per km²4333,601
Museums within 10 km2117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.