VacationSelector

Lucerne or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on value for money 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.

LucerneWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Lucerne and Warsaw are level on 0.
LucerneWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1626
Coast distance669 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
LucerneWarsaw
Score4772
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2534
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 23 points.23
LucerneWarsaw
Score4063
Museums within 10 km23107
Museums within 2 km of centre1360
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 34 points.34
LucerneWarsaw
Score2862
Drinking venues within 4 km2021,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7564
Nightclubs within 4 km11104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 30 points.30
LucerneWarsaw
Score2555
Protected land share 50 km %727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 32 points.32
LucerneWarsaw
Score3870
Tourist attractions within 2 km1542
Park area within 2 km29 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 41 points.41
LucerneWarsaw
Score3576
Notable places within 2 km29299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 44 points.44
LucerneWarsaw
Score3579
Price level global110.549
Daily budget€248€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
LucerneWarsaw
Score5359
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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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M
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J
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Daytime high, °C
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLucerneWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 30 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

MeasureLucerneWarsaw
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPolish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation436 m118 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneWarsaw
City population86,2341,862,402
People per km²2,9633,601
Museums within 10 km14117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4676

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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). 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.