VacationSelector

San Francisco or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

San Francisco
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

San FranciscoWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 60 points.60
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4426
Coast distance2 km238 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 11 points.11
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score8372
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,3591,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3934
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score4463
Museums within 10 km57107
Museums within 2 km of centre2960
Share of museums within 2 km %5156
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 6 points.6
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score6862
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4341,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6564
Nightclubs within 4 km97104
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 5 points.5
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score6055
Protected land share 50 km %1727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %419
Land share of disc %57100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score5770
Tourist attractions within 2 km4842
Park area within 2 km45 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score6376
Notable places within 2 km147299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 36 points.36
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score4379
Price level global10049
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 19 points.19
San FranciscoWarsaw
Score7859
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months76
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
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
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. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
5 h 35 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSan FranciscoWarsaw
Official languagePolish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation16 m118 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoWarsaw
City population873,9651,862,402
People per km²1,4553,601
Museums within 10 km50117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre10876
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). 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.