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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Medellin 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 Medellin for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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. Medellin 5, Warsaw 12: Warsaw leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Warsaw 66: Medellin leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Warsaw 47: Medellin leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Warsaw 52: Medellin leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Warsaw 64: Medellin leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Warsaw 35: Warsaw leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Medellin
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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.

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
12 hdaylight a day

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MedellinWarsaw

Where the figures come from

Medellin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinWarsaw
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number123112
Elevation1,405 m118 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinWarsaw
City population2,529,4031,862,402
People per km²6,6443,601
Museums within 10 km14117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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.