VacationSelector

Belgrade or Krakow?

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

Your match

Belgrade
54
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

BelgradeKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Belgrade and Krakow are level on 0.
BelgradeKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km99
Coast distance292 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 5 points.5
BelgradeKrakow
Score6368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7761,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2930
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 22 points.22
BelgradeKrakow
Score5375
Museums within 10 km6784
Museums within 2 km of centre4769
Share of museums within 2 km %7082
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Belgrade leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeKrakow
Score6557
Drinking venues within 4 km1,163836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre841697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7283
Nightclubs within 4 km13054
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
BelgradeKrakow
Score3846
Protected land share 50 km %614
Landscape blanket share 50 km %21
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 23 points.23
BelgradeKrakow
Score5174
Tourist attractions within 2 km1477
Park area within 2 km147 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Belgrade and Krakow are level on 68.
BelgradeKrakow
Score6868
Notable places within 2 km190198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Belgrade leads by 6 points.6
BelgradeKrakow
Score8579
Price level global41.749
Daily budget€99€133
Year-round weather. Belgrade leads by 7 points.7
BelgradeKrakow
Score6558
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 29.7 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 95 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
Belgrade
5
8
13
19
24
27
29
30
24
19
12
6
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Rainfall, mm
Belgrade
48
44
49
51
72
95
67
56
60
55
50
54
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Belgrade
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belgrade
3
4
5
7
8
9
10
9
7
6
3
2
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelgradeKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€103-154
BEG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€185-297
BEG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€177-224
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€87-103
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
€203-237
BEG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€42-60
BEG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 50 m
€178-263
2 stops
BEG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 20 m
€196-211
1 stop
BEG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 10 m
€290-365
BEG · 12 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
€703-796
1 stop
BEG · 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

MeasureBelgradeKrakow
Official languageSerbianPolish
CurrencySerbian Dinar (RSD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193112
Elevation117 m219 m
Main airportBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre123 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

MeasureBelgradeKrakow
City population1,197,714804,237
People per km²3,3272,459
Museums within 10 km65114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6268

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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.