VacationSelector

Vancouver or Warsaw?

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

Your match

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

VancouverWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
VancouverWarsaw
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10926
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 2 points.2
VancouverWarsaw
Score7472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3301,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3534
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 29 points.29
VancouverWarsaw
Score3463
Museums within 10 km27107
Museums within 2 km of centre1560
Share of museums within 2 km %5656
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 5 points.5
VancouverWarsaw
Score5762
Drinking venues within 4 km8481,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre602648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7164
Nightclubs within 4 km44104
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 22 points.22
VancouverWarsaw
Score7755
Protected land share 50 km %1927
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %60100
Park area within 2 km103 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 17 points.17
VancouverWarsaw
Score5370
Tourist attractions within 2 km1542
Park area within 2 km103 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 28 points.28
VancouverWarsaw
Score4876
Notable places within 2 km63299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
VancouverWarsaw
Score5479
Price level global8449
Daily budget—€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
VancouverWarsaw
Score5359
Monthly daytime high7.3 °C to 23 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
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. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromVancouverWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 10 m
€743-810
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 45 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
San FranciscoSFO
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CancunCUN
5 h 55 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
11 h 40 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

MeasureVancouverWarsaw
Official languageFrench, EnglishPolish
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m118 m
Main airportVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureVancouverWarsaw
City population662,2481,862,402
People per km²5,7593,601
Museums within 10 km26117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre8576
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.