VacationSelector

Seattle or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

SeattleWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SeattleWarsaw
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10026
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 3 points.3
SeattleWarsaw
Score7572
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4601,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 27 points.27
SeattleWarsaw
Score3663
Museums within 10 km28107
Museums within 2 km of centre1760
Share of museums within 2 km %6156
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 5 points.5
SeattleWarsaw
Score5762
Drinking venues within 4 km8731,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8064
Nightclubs within 4 km34104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 15 points.15
SeattleWarsaw
Score4055
Protected land share 50 km %927
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 24 points.24
SeattleWarsaw
Score4670
Tourist attractions within 2 km1742
Park area within 2 km63 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 24 points.24
SeattleWarsaw
Score5276
Notable places within 2 km76299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 36 points.36
SeattleWarsaw
Score4379
Price level global10049
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 2 points.2
SeattleWarsaw
Score6159
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Seattle
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. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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

MeasureSeattleWarsaw
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
Elevation40 m118 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleWarsaw
City population737,0151,862,402
People per km²1,9963,601
Museums within 10 km27117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7876
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.