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Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Punta Cana 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 Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Warsaw for

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

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. Punta Cana 94, Warsaw 12: Punta Cana leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Punta Cana 30, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Punta Cana 8, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Punta Cana 40, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta Cana 52, Warsaw 47: Punta Cana leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Punta Cana 35, Warsaw 52: Warsaw leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Punta Cana 68, Warsaw 62: Punta Cana leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Punta Cana 15, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Punta Cana 30, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Punta Cana 44, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta Cana 15, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta Cana 52, Warsaw 35: Punta Cana leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta Cana and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Punta CanaWarsaw

Where the figures come from

Punta Cana 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. Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta CanaWarsaw
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m118 m
Main airportPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta CanaWarsaw
City population138,9191,862,402
People per km²2923,601
Museums within 10 km0117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.