VacationSelector

Frankfurt 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, 1 point apart

Frankfurt
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Krakow
58
match

Wins on value for money 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.

FrankfurtKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Frankfurt and Krakow are level on 0.
FrankfurtKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance327 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 2 points.2
FrankfurtKrakow
Score7068
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1601,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3130
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
FrankfurtKrakow
Score6975
Museums within 10 km7984
Museums within 2 km of centre4369
Share of museums within 2 km %5482
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 2 points.2
FrankfurtKrakow
Score5957
Drinking venues within 4 km931836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km5654
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 18 points.18
FrankfurtKrakow
Score6446
Protected land share 50 km %2814
Landscape blanket share 50 km %111
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km124 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
FrankfurtKrakow
Score6874
Tourist attractions within 2 km4577
Park area within 2 km124 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 7 points.7
FrankfurtKrakow
Score6168
Notable places within 2 km129198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
FrankfurtKrakow
Score6079
Price level global75.949
Daily budget€163€133
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 4 points.4
FrankfurtKrakow
Score6258
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months14
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 13 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
€184-221
2 stops
FRA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 13 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€142-154
FRA · 13 km
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ColomboCMB
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
KTW · 76 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

MeasureFrankfurtKrakow
Official languageGermanPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation101 m219 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 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

MeasureFrankfurtKrakow
City population775,790804,237
People per km²3,1242,459
Museums within 10 km53114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre7168

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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.