VacationSelector

Bruges or Krakow?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BrugesKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesKrakow
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance14 km456 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
BrugesKrakow
Score5768
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3230
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
BrugesKrakow
Score5775
Museums within 10 km3084
Museums within 2 km of centre2469
Share of museums within 2 km %8082
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 23 points.23
BrugesKrakow
Score3457
Drinking venues within 4 km292836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8083
Nightclubs within 4 km854
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
BrugesKrakow
Score2646
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km59 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
BrugesKrakow
Score6074
Tourist attractions within 2 km5277
Park area within 2 km59 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 28 points.28
BrugesKrakow
Score4068
Notable places within 2 km40198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
BrugesKrakow
Score6079
Price level global76.249
Daily budget€180€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
BrugesKrakow
Score5658
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months14
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 30 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

MeasureBrugesKrakow
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
Elevation2 m219 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 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

MeasureBrugesKrakow
City population118,509804,237
People per km²8402,459
Museums within 10 km38114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre5168
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.