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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Essaouira or Krakow?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Essaouira for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’s own page.

Choose Krakow for

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Essaouira 47, Krakow 9: Essaouira leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Krakow 62: Krakow leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 59 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Krakow 72: Essaouira leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Krakow 36: Essaouira leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Krakow.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Essaouira
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Essaouira has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraKrakow
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightPolish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCE50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation11 m219 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraKrakow
City population82,962804,237
People per km²16,5922,459
Museums within 10 km2113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.