VacationSelector

Munich or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

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.

MunichWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Munich and Warsaw are level on 0.
MunichWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km626
Coast distance579 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Munich leads by 1 points.1
MunichWarsaw
Score7372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2801,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 2 points.2
MunichWarsaw
Score6163
Museums within 10 km74107
Museums within 2 km of centre4860
Share of museums within 2 km %6556
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Munich leads by 5 points.5
MunichWarsaw
Score6762
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3351,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5764
Nightclubs within 4 km103104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 7 points.7
MunichWarsaw
Score4855
Protected land share 50 km %1727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1519
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km199 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 9 points.9
MunichWarsaw
Score7970
Tourist attractions within 2 km8042
Park area within 2 km199 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 8 points.8
MunichWarsaw
Score6876
Notable places within 2 km196299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
MunichWarsaw
Score6079
Price level global75.949
Daily budget€163€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
MunichWarsaw
Score5659
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
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. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 0 m
€207-225
MUC · 29 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMunichWarsaw
Official languageGermanPolish
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
Elevation519 m118 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichWarsaw
City population1,510,3781,862,402
People per km²4,8613,601
Museums within 10 km74117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8976

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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.