VacationSelector

Rome or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on places to eat and value for money 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.

RomeWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
RomeWarsaw
Score330
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km326
Coast distance24 km238 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 12 points.12
RomeWarsaw
Score6072
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2411,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1034
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 21 points.21
RomeWarsaw
Score8463
Museums within 10 km161107
Museums within 2 km of centre7960
Share of museums within 2 km %4956
Unesco sites within 50 km71
Nightlife. Rome leads by 12 points.12
RomeWarsaw
Score7462
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0221,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4564
Nightclubs within 4 km85104
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 15 points.15
RomeWarsaw
Score7055
Protected land share 50 km %1927
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km172 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 16 points.16
RomeWarsaw
Score8670
Tourist attractions within 2 km12642
Park area within 2 km172 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 23 points.23
RomeWarsaw
Score9976
Notable places within 2 km1,125299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 11 points.11
RomeWarsaw
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155€133
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 12 points.12
RomeWarsaw
Score7159
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months36
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
9 h 45 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

MeasureRomeWarsaw
Official languageItalianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation21 m118 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeWarsaw
City population2,748,1091,862,402
People per km²2,1353,601
Museums within 10 km177117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km71
Distinct cuisines in the centre6576
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.