VacationSelector

Bath or Krakow?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Bath leads by 8 points.8
BathKrakow
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance29 km456 km
Water distance29 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 22 points.22
BathKrakow
Score4668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2451,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2630
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 28 points.28
BathKrakow
Score4775
Museums within 10 km2084
Museums within 2 km of centre1469
Share of museums within 2 km %7082
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
BathKrakow
Score3657
Drinking venues within 4 km320836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7583
Nightclubs within 4 km1154
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
BathKrakow
Score4446
Protected land share 50 km %2814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %271
Land share of disc %92100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 34 points.34
BathKrakow
Score4074
Tourist attractions within 2 km1477
Park area within 2 km45 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
BathKrakow
Score3268
Notable places within 2 km25198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
BathKrakow
Score5479
Price level global84.949
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 3 points.3
BathKrakow
Score5558
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
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
Bath
2
3
4
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathKrakow
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ColomboCMB
10 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureBathKrakow
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m219 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathKrakow
City population94,092804,237
People per km²3,2452,459
Museums within 10 km17114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3868
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.