VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

RotterdamWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
RotterdamWarsaw
Score370
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2226
Coast distance24 km238 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam and Warsaw are level on 72.
RotterdamWarsaw
Score7272
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8621,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4634
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
RotterdamWarsaw
Score6063
Museums within 10 km41107
Museums within 2 km of centre2060
Share of museums within 2 km %4956
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
RotterdamWarsaw
Score4962
Drinking venues within 4 km5421,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre378648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7064
Nightclubs within 4 km40104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
RotterdamWarsaw
Score4255
Protected land share 50 km %1027
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %79100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 8 points.8
RotterdamWarsaw
Score6270
Tourist attractions within 2 km2742
Park area within 2 km61 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km85
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
RotterdamWarsaw
Score5176
Notable places within 2 km74299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 21 points.21
RotterdamWarsaw
Score5879
Price level global79.249
Daily budget€181€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
RotterdamWarsaw
Score5659
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamWarsaw
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
WMI · 35 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
WMI · 35 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureRotterdamWarsaw
Official languageDutchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation10 m118 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamWarsaw
City population664,3111,862,402
People per km²2,0803,601
Museums within 10 km40117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre7776
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.