VacationSelector

Antwerp or Krakow?

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

Your match

Antwerp
51
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

AntwerpKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Antwerp and Krakow are level on 0.
AntwerpKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance21 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 7 points.7
AntwerpKrakow
Score7568
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1641,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4230
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpKrakow
Score6975
Museums within 10 km4184
Museums within 2 km of centre2769
Share of museums within 2 km %6682
Unesco sites within 50 km94
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 2 points.2
AntwerpKrakow
Score5957
Drinking venues within 4 km866836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7683
Nightclubs within 4 km7354
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 12 points.12
AntwerpKrakow
Score3446
Protected land share 50 km %714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km53 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 28 points.28
AntwerpKrakow
Score4674
Tourist attractions within 2 km1477
Park area within 2 km53 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
AntwerpKrakow
Score5468
Notable places within 2 km88198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpKrakow
Score6079
Price level global76.249
Daily budget€180€133
Year-round weather. Antwerp and Krakow are level on 58.
AntwerpKrakow
Score5858
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
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
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 36 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 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

MeasureAntwerpKrakow
Official languageFrench, German, DutchPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m219 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpKrakow
City population529,247804,237
People per km²2,5422,459
Museums within 10 km38114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km94
Distinct cuisines in the centre8068

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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. 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.