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Philadelphia or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on places to eat and year-round weather with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Warsaw are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km126
Coast distance13 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score7772
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7141,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score6063
Museums within 10 km89107
Museums within 2 km of centre4860
Share of museums within 2 km %5456
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score5962
Drinking venues within 4 km9301,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6264
Nightclubs within 4 km41104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score4955
Protected land share 50 km %1427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score5370
Tourist attractions within 2 km1642
Park area within 2 km75 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 22 points.22
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score5476
Notable places within 2 km88299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 36 points.36
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score4379
Price level global10049
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
PhiladelphiaWarsaw
Score6059
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaWarsaw
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
Elevation12 m118 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaWarsaw
City population1,603,7971,862,402
People per km²4,3393,601
Museums within 10 km54117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7576

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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). 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.