VacationSelector

Hamburg or Krakow?

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

Your match

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

HamburgKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and Krakow are level on 0.
HamburgKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km169
Coast distance22 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 5 points.5
HamburgKrakow
Score7368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1501,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3830
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 15 points.15
HamburgKrakow
Score6075
Museums within 10 km9484
Museums within 2 km of centre5069
Share of museums within 2 km %5382
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 11 points.11
HamburgKrakow
Score6857
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6283
Nightclubs within 4 km11954
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
HamburgKrakow
Score4046
Protected land share 50 km %1414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %101
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
HamburgKrakow
Score6074
Tourist attractions within 2 km4077
Park area within 2 km89 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 9 points.9
HamburgKrakow
Score5968
Notable places within 2 km118198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
HamburgKrakow
Score6079
Price level global75.949
Daily budget€163€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 3 points.3
HamburgKrakow
Score5558
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 30 m
€109-148
HAM · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 35 m
€162-200
HAM · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureHamburgKrakow
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
Elevation6 m219 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 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

MeasureHamburgKrakow
City population1,910,160804,237
People per km²2,5302,459
Museums within 10 km77114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre8368

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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.