VacationSelector

Cardiff or Krakow?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

CardiffKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffKrakow
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km89
Coast distance2 km456 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
CardiffKrakow
Score6068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5411,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3230
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
CardiffKrakow
Score3975
Museums within 10 km6184
Museums within 2 km of centre669
Share of museums within 2 km %1082
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 9 points.9
CardiffKrakow
Score4857
Drinking venues within 4 km536836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km3554
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 4 points.4
CardiffKrakow
Score5046
Protected land share 50 km %1814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %151
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 42 points.42
CardiffKrakow
Score3274
Tourist attractions within 2 km477
Park area within 2 km88 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 23 points.23
CardiffKrakow
Score4568
Notable places within 2 km51198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
CardiffKrakow
Score5479
Price level global84.949
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
CardiffKrakow
Score5458
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffKrakow
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 34 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ThessalonikiSKG
3 h 25 m
€95-154
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCardiffKrakow
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
Elevation41 m219 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 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

MeasureCardiffKrakow
City population383,536804,237
People per km²2,7342,459
Museums within 10 km9114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5568
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.