VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Krakow?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

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

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

HeidelbergKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and Krakow are level on 0.
HeidelbergKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km69
Coast distance406 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
HeidelbergKrakow
Score4768
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2630
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 16 points.16
HeidelbergKrakow
Score5975
Museums within 10 km5484
Museums within 2 km of centre2369
Share of museums within 2 km %4382
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 30 points.30
HeidelbergKrakow
Score2757
Drinking venues within 4 km201836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8483
Nightclubs within 4 km854
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 28 points.28
HeidelbergKrakow
Score7446
Protected land share 50 km %5214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %221
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 31 points.31
HeidelbergKrakow
Score4374
Tourist attractions within 2 km2977
Park area within 2 km20 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 32 points.32
HeidelbergKrakow
Score3668
Notable places within 2 km31198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
HeidelbergKrakow
Score6079
Price level global75.949
Daily budget€163€133
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 3 points.3
HeidelbergKrakow
Score6158
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 80 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months04
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
Heidelberg
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
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 0 m
€184-221
2 stops
FRA · 69 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€141-152
FRA · 69 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€142-154
FRA · 69 km
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ColomboCMB
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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

MeasureHeidelbergKrakow
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
Elevation114 m219 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergKrakow
City population162,960804,237
People per km²1,4962,459
Museums within 10 km17114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre4568

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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.