VacationSelector

Malaga 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, 1 point apart

Malaga
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

MalagaWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
MalagaWarsaw
Score660
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2126
Coast distance0 km238 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
MalagaWarsaw
Score6972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0021,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3434
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 10 points.10
MalagaWarsaw
Score5363
Museums within 10 km40107
Museums within 2 km of centre3560
Share of museums within 2 km %8856
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 8 points.8
MalagaWarsaw
Score5462
Drinking venues within 4 km7151,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre486648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6864
Nightclubs within 4 km45104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 12 points.12
MalagaWarsaw
Score4355
Protected land share 50 km %727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %63100
Park area within 2 km85 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
MalagaWarsaw
Score5370
Tourist attractions within 2 km3342
Park area within 2 km85 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 39 points.39
MalagaWarsaw
Score3776
Notable places within 2 km33299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 8 points.8
MalagaWarsaw
Score7179
Price level global60.849
Daily budget€122€133
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 23 points.23
MalagaWarsaw
Score8259
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months56
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
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. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
4 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

MeasureMalagaWarsaw
Official languageSpanishPolish
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
Elevation18 m118 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaWarsaw
City population599,0631,862,402
People per km²1,5173,601
Museums within 10 km32117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6576
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.