07/2026
2026-02-27
Activities in 2025
Polish people’s engagement in cultural and other leisure activities in 2025 mostly remained at the same level as the previous year. Greater changes, however, were noted in relation to holidays and going abroad. The number of respondents saying they had gone away on holiday rose by 4 percentage points over 2024, continuing a trend that started with the end of the pandemic and that has now reached record levels. Currently 64% of adult Poles say that they went on holiday at least once in 2025, making this the highest result since CBOS records on the subject began, in 2006.
Similarly, the percentage of Poles saying they had had at least one trip abroad in 2025 has also risen by 4 points to a record 44%. This is also the highest result since CBOS records on the subject began, in 1993.
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More on this subject in the CBOS report.
This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (429) was conducted using a mixed-mode procedure on a representative sample of named adult residents of Poland, randomly selected from the National Identity Number (PESEL) register. Respondents independently selected one of the following methods: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI); Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS; Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS. In all three cases the questionnaire had the same structure and comprised the same questions. The survey was carried out between 8 – 20 January 2026 inclusive on a sample of 938 people (55.5% using the CAPI method, 26.4% CATI and 18% CAWI). CBOS has been conducting statutory research using the above procedure since May 2020, stating in each case the percentage of personal, telephone and internet interviews.
