VacationSelector

Dublin or Krakow?

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

Your match

Dublin
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on value for money 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.

DublinKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinKrakow
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km119
Coast distance3 km456 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 2 points.2
DublinKrakow
Score7068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9201,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3730
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
DublinKrakow
Score5575
Museums within 10 km4784
Museums within 2 km of centre3769
Share of museums within 2 km %7982
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 7 points.7
DublinKrakow
Score6457
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7583
Nightclubs within 4 km4054
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
DublinKrakow
Score2646
Protected land share 50 km %314
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
DublinKrakow
Score5474
Tourist attractions within 2 km4177
Park area within 2 km43 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
DublinKrakow
Score6268
Notable places within 2 km141198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 22 points.22
DublinKrakow
Score5779
Price level global80.249
Daily budget€187€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
DublinKrakow
Score5458
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€53-95
DUB · 9 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€71-105
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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

MeasureDublinKrakow
Official languageEnglish, IrishPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m219 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 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

MeasureDublinKrakow
City population592,713804,237
People per km²5,1542,459
Museums within 10 km40114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre7468
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.