VacationSelector

Dubai or Krakow?

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

Your match

Dubai
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

DubaiKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
DubaiKrakow
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km529
Coast distance0 km456 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
DubaiKrakow
Score6668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0861,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2630
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 37 points.37
DubaiKrakow
Score3875
Museums within 10 km2684
Museums within 2 km of centre1869
Share of museums within 2 km %6982
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
DubaiKrakow
Score5357
Drinking venues within 4 km601836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5183
Nightclubs within 4 km8454
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 28 points.28
DubaiKrakow
Score1846
Protected land share 50 km %414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
DubaiKrakow
Score4974
Tourist attractions within 2 km3777
Park area within 2 km13 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 31 points.31
DubaiKrakow
Score3768
Notable places within 2 km33198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 10 points.10
DubaiKrakow
Score6979
Price level global63.449
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 8 points.8
DubaiKrakow
Score6658
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months124
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
5 h 35 m
€244-282
DXB · 7 km
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
6 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
6 h 10 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ColomboCMB
4 h 30 m
€273-387
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 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

MeasureDubaiKrakow
Official languageArabicPolish
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m219 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiKrakow
City population3,944,751804,237
People per km²2,459
Museums within 10 km14114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre5268
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.