VacationSelector

New York or Warsaw?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

New YorkWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
New YorkWarsaw
Score640
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1726
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 23 points.23
New YorkWarsaw
Score9572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0321,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3834
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
New YorkWarsaw
Score6063
Museums within 10 km119107
Museums within 2 km of centre3160
Share of museums within 2 km %2656
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. New York leads by 27 points.27
New YorkWarsaw
Score8962
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1591,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4864
Nightclubs within 4 km192104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 16 points.16
New YorkWarsaw
Score3955
Protected land share 50 km %427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %69100
Park area within 2 km134 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 2 points.2
New YorkWarsaw
Score7270
Tourist attractions within 2 km3742
Park area within 2 km134 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km75
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 2 points.2
New YorkWarsaw
Score7476
Notable places within 2 km268299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 36 points.36
New YorkWarsaw
Score4379
Price level global10049
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 1 points.1
New YorkWarsaw
Score5859
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureNew YorkWarsaw
Official languagePolish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m118 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkWarsaw
City population8,804,1901,862,402
People per km²7,2563,601
Museums within 10 km157117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre13276
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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.