VacationSelector

Interlaken or Krakow?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

InterlakenKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Krakow are level on 0.
InterlakenKrakow
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km129
Coast distance713 km456 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 39 points.39
InterlakenKrakow
Score2968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1181,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1730
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 52 points.52
InterlakenKrakow
Score2375
Museums within 10 km584
Museums within 2 km of centre269
Share of museums within 2 km %4082
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 53 points.53
InterlakenKrakow
Score457
Drinking venues within 4 km42836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9083
Nightclubs within 4 km354
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenKrakow
Score2746
Protected land share 50 km %1914
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km5 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 60 points.60
InterlakenKrakow
Score1474
Tourist attractions within 2 km1177
Park area within 2 km5 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 46 points.46
InterlakenKrakow
Score2268
Notable places within 2 km14198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 44 points.44
InterlakenKrakow
Score3579
Price level global110.549
Daily budget€248€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 1 points.1
InterlakenKrakow
Score5758
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months34
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenKrakow
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ColomboCMB
10 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInterlakenKrakow
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPolish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m219 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 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

MeasureInterlakenKrakow
City population6,123804,237
People per km²1,4242,459
Museums within 10 km3114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre2268

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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). 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. 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.