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Surfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach, Gold Coast
Gold CoastSurfers Paradise from Narrowneck Beach
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Gold Coast by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Gold Coast 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 Gold Coast for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Krakow for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • getting around

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. Gold Coast 92, Krakow 9: Gold Coast leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Gold Coast 47, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Gold Coast 15, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Gold Coast 55, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Gold Coast 82, Krakow 62: Gold Coast leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Gold Coast 52, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Gold Coast 89, Krakow 58: Gold Coast leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Gold Coast 45, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Gold Coast 40, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Gold Coast 35, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Gold Coast 30, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Gold Coast 42, Krakow 36: Gold Coast leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Gold Coast and Krakow.

Your match

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

Gold Coast
52match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Gold Coast in July

22 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
59 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

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

Gold Coast's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Brisbane Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Gold Coast: 1991-2020 normals, Gold Coast Seaway (13 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGold CoastKrakow
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation12 m219 m
Main airportGold Coast Airport (OOL)20 km from centre19 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

MeasureGold CoastKrakow
City population607,665804,237
People per km²4332,459
Museums within 10 km2113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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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). 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.