VacationSelector

Edinburgh 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, level with your weighting

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Krakow
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.

EdinburghKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghKrakow
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km209
Coast distance3 km456 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghKrakow
Score7068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0231,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3530
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghKrakow
Score5775
Museums within 10 km3084
Museums within 2 km of centre2269
Share of museums within 2 km %7382
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 7 points.7
EdinburghKrakow
Score6457
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km6554
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
EdinburghKrakow
Score3546
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghKrakow
Score7274
Tourist attractions within 2 km8777
Park area within 2 km166 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
EdinburghKrakow
Score6068
Notable places within 2 km126198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
EdinburghKrakow
Score5479
Price level global84.949
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 7 points.7
EdinburghKrakow
Score5158
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
€150-240
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureEdinburghKrakow
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
Elevation47 m219 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghKrakow
City population488,050804,237
People per km²1,8842,459
Museums within 10 km32114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre7868
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.