VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Krakow?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

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

Krakow
58
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

AmsterdamKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamKrakow
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km339
Coast distance24 km456 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamKrakow
Score8368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9571,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4430
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 5 points.5
AmsterdamKrakow
Score8075
Museums within 10 km9884
Museums within 2 km of centre6969
Share of museums within 2 km %7082
Unesco sites within 50 km54
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 13 points.13
AmsterdamKrakow
Score7057
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7083
Nightclubs within 4 km11454
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 14 points.14
AmsterdamKrakow
Score6046
Protected land share 50 km %2114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
AmsterdamKrakow
Score6874
Tourist attractions within 2 km7477
Park area within 2 km49 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Amsterdam and Krakow are level on 68.
AmsterdamKrakow
Score6868
Notable places within 2 km196198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
AmsterdamKrakow
Score5879
Price level global79.249
Daily budget€181€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 1 points.1
AmsterdamKrakow
Score5758
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months04
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 50 m
€155-209
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 12 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 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

MeasureAmsterdamKrakow
Official languageDutchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m219 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamKrakow
City population921,468804,237
People per km²4,2082,459
Museums within 10 km101114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Distinct cuisines in the centre9868
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.