VacationSelector

Florence or Krakow?

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

Your match

Florence
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and value for money 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.

FlorenceKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Krakow are level on 0.
FlorenceKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km09
Coast distance78 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 9 points.9
FlorenceKrakow
Score5968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1530
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 7 points.7
FlorenceKrakow
Score8275
Museums within 10 km13284
Museums within 2 km of centre9369
Share of museums within 2 km %7082
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 1 points.1
FlorenceKrakow
Score5657
Drinking venues within 4 km818836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7383
Nightclubs within 4 km3454
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceKrakow
Score3846
Protected land share 50 km %914
Landscape blanket share 50 km %21
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceKrakow
Score5274
Tourist attractions within 2 km3077
Park area within 2 km86 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 7 points.7
FlorenceKrakow
Score7568
Notable places within 2 km292198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceKrakow
Score6879
Price level global64.949
Daily budget€155€133
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceKrakow
Score6858
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months24
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFlorenceKrakow
Official languageItalianPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation50 m219 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceKrakow
City population360,930804,237
People per km²3,5282,459
Museums within 10 km140114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre6268

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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. 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.