VacationSelector

Faro or Krakow?

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

Your match

Faro
47
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.

FaroKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroKrakow
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km139
Coast distance0 km456 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 24 points.24
FaroKrakow
Score4468
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2230
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 53 points.53
FaroKrakow
Score2275
Museums within 10 km984
Museums within 2 km of centre869
Share of museums within 2 km %8982
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
FaroKrakow
Score2157
Drinking venues within 4 km143836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8683
Nightclubs within 4 km854
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 11 points.11
FaroKrakow
Score5746
Protected land share 50 km %1114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 38 points.38
FaroKrakow
Score3674
Tourist attractions within 2 km1077
Park area within 2 km34 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 46 points.46
FaroKrakow
Score2268
Notable places within 2 km14198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 5 points.5
FaroKrakow
Score7479
Price level global55.949
Daily budget€109€133
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 25 points.25
FaroKrakow
Score8358
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months64
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BristolBRS
2 h 35 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 40 m
€85-128
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
4 h 20 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureFaroKrakow
Official languagePortuguesePolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m219 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroKrakow
City population64,560804,237
People per km²3192,459
Museums within 10 km2114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3468
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.