VacationSelector

Kuala Lumpur or Warsaw?

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, 2 points apart

Kuala Lumpur
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Kuala Lumpur leads by 40 points.40
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km026
Coast distance38 km238 km
Water distance36 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 6 points.6
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score7872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,3581,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2834
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 12 points.12
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score5163
Museums within 10 km41107
Museums within 2 km of centre2660
Share of museums within 2 km %6356
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 5 points.5
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score6762
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3081,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre735648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5664
Nightclubs within 4 km126104
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 14 points.14
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score6955
Protected land share 50 km %2827
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km70 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 10 points.10
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score6070
Tourist attractions within 2 km2642
Park area within 2 km70 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score5176
Notable places within 2 km75299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 13 points.13
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score9279
Price level global30.649
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 7 points.7
Kuala LumpurWarsaw
Score5259
Monthly daytime high31.9 °C to 33.7 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall145 mm to 360 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months06
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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
No sunshine record
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. Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKuala LumpurWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 55 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 45 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 0 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 10 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
3 h 0 m
€169-184
KUL · 45 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ColomboCMB
3 h 35 m
€239-270
KUL · 45 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 30 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New DelhiDEL
5 h 15 m
€325-356
KUL · 45 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
5 h 50 m
€215-226
1 stop
KUL · 45 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKuala LumpurWarsaw
Official languageMalayPolish
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation50 m118 m
Main airportKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKuala LumpurWarsaw
City population9,000,2801,862,402
People per km²36,9323,601
Museums within 10 km25117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6976
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.