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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Krakow for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Havana 64, Krakow 9: Havana leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Havana and Krakow are level on 77.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Krakow 62: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Krakow 48: Krakow leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Krakow 55: Havana leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Krakow 36: Krakow leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Krakow.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
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

Havana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaKrakow
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105112
Elevation59 m219 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaKrakow
City population2,492,618804,237
People per km²3,4232,459
Museums within 10 km12113
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). 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), 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.