VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Ljubljana
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

LjubljanaWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Ljubljana and Warsaw are level on 0.
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1026
Coast distance72 km238 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score5572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2921,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4034
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 8 points.8
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score5563
Museums within 10 km26107
Museums within 2 km of centre2360
Share of museums within 2 km %8856
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score4562
Drinking venues within 4 km4581,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6264
Nightclubs within 4 km24104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 15 points.15
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score4055
Protected land share 50 km %1327
Landscape blanket share 50 km %519
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 32 points.32
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score3870
Tourist attractions within 2 km1242
Park area within 2 km75 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 18 points.18
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score5876
Notable places within 2 km109299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 7 points.7
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score7279
Price level global59.649
Daily budget€131€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
LjubljanaWarsaw
Score5659
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaWarsaw
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubrovnikDBV
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DohaDOH
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 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

MeasureLjubljanaWarsaw
Official languageSlovenePolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation309 m118 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaWarsaw
City population284,2931,862,402
People per km²1,7363,601
Museums within 10 km14117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6376

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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. 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.