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Brussels or Krakow?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Brussels
56
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Krakow
58
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

BrusselsKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Brussels and Krakow are level on 0.
BrusselsKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km09
Coast distance56 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 13 points.13
BrusselsKrakow
Score8168
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7791,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4430
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 5 points.5
BrusselsKrakow
Score8075
Museums within 10 km12084
Museums within 2 km of centre5969
Share of museums within 2 km %4982
Unesco sites within 50 km104
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 11 points.11
BrusselsKrakow
Score6857
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6183
Nightclubs within 4 km8454
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 15 points.15
BrusselsKrakow
Score3146
Protected land share 50 km %614
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km65 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
BrusselsKrakow
Score5674
Tourist attractions within 2 km2877
Park area within 2 km65 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 5 points.5
BrusselsKrakow
Score7368
Notable places within 2 km254198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
BrusselsKrakow
Score6079
Price level global76.249
Daily budget€180€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 1 points.1
BrusselsKrakow
Score5758
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
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
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

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

MeasureBrusselsKrakow
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
Elevation70 m219 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 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

MeasureBrusselsKrakow
City population195,546804,237
People per km²5,9082,459
Museums within 10 km105114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km104
Distinct cuisines in the centre10968

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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.