VacationSelector

Krakow or Kuala Lumpur?

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

Your match

Krakow
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

KrakowKuala Lumpur
Beaches & swimming. Kuala Lumpur leads by 40 points.40
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score040
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance456 km38 km
Water distance36 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 10 points.10
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score6878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0322,358
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3028
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 24 points.24
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score7551
Museums within 10 km8441
Museums within 2 km of centre6926
Share of museums within 2 km %8263
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 10 points.10
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score5767
Drinking venues within 4 km8361,308
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697735
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8356
Nightclubs within 4 km54126
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 23 points.23
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score4669
Protected land share 50 km %1428
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10097
Park area within 2 km79 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score7460
Tourist attractions within 2 km7726
Park area within 2 km79 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 17 points.17
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score6851
Notable places within 2 km19875
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 13 points.13
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score7992
Price level global4930.6
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 6 points.6
KrakowKuala Lumpur
Score5852
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C31.9 °C to 33.7 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm145 mm to 360 mm
Dry months40
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
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowKuala Lumpur
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
ColomboCMB
9 h 20 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
3 h 35 m
€239-270
KUL · 45 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
PhuketHKT
10 h 50 m
no fares
OSR · 137 km
1 h 30 m
€109-127
KUL · 45 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
KUL · 45 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

MeasureKrakowKuala Lumpur
Official languagePolishMalay
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
SocketsCE50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112999
Elevation219 m50 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowKuala Lumpur
City population804,2379,000,280
People per km²2,45936,932
Museums within 10 km11425
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6869
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.