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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belfast or Krakow?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Belfast for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’s own page.

Choose Krakow for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Belfast 20, Krakow 9: Belfast leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Krakow 62: Belfast leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Belfast and Krakow are level on 58.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast and Krakow are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Krakow 36: Krakow leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Krakow.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Belfast
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastKrakow

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastKrakow
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
Elevation3 m219 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastKrakow
City population345,006804,237
People per km²3,0002,459
Museums within 10 km8113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.