VacationSelector

Sydney or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

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

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

SydneyWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 60 points.60
SydneyWarsaw
Score600
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km16026
Coast distance7 km238 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
SydneyWarsaw
Score7872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2051,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3134
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 12 points.12
SydneyWarsaw
Score5163
Museums within 10 km44107
Museums within 2 km of centre2060
Share of museums within 2 km %4556
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 13 points.13
SydneyWarsaw
Score7562
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0501,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6964
Nightclubs within 4 km120104
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 3 points.3
SydneyWarsaw
Score5855
Protected land share 50 km %1027
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km115 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
SydneyWarsaw
Score6470
Tourist attractions within 2 km3742
Park area within 2 km115 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 16 points.16
SydneyWarsaw
Score6076
Notable places within 2 km123299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 29 points.29
SydneyWarsaw
Score5079
Price level global90.249
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 22 points.22
SydneyWarsaw
Score8159
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
6 h 5 m
€460-617
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
9 h 50 m
€671
SYD · 9 km
10 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

MeasureSydneyWarsaw
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation6 m118 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyWarsaw
City population5,450,4961,862,402
People per km²4493,601
Museums within 10 km38117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre7976
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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.