VacationSelector

Paris or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

ParisWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Paris and Warsaw are level on 0.
ParisWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km226
Coast distance149 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 18 points.18
ParisWarsaw
Score9072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3334
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 13 points.13
ParisWarsaw
Score7663
Museums within 10 km185107
Museums within 2 km of centre6560
Share of museums within 2 km %3556
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Paris leads by 26 points.26
ParisWarsaw
Score8862
Drinking venues within 4 km3,7961,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4564
Nightclubs within 4 km201104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 7 points.7
ParisWarsaw
Score4855
Protected land share 50 km %2827
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2619
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km82 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 5 points.5
ParisWarsaw
Score7570
Tourist attractions within 2 km8942
Park area within 2 km82 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 18 points.18
ParisWarsaw
Score9476
Notable places within 2 km865299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
ParisWarsaw
Score6279
Price level global73.749
Daily budget€160€133
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 7 points.7
ParisWarsaw
Score6659
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months16
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
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
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORY · 14 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

MeasureParisWarsaw
Official languageFrenchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation27 m118 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisWarsaw
City population2,103,7781,862,402
People per km²19,9603,601
Museums within 10 km251117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre16976

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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.