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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or La Romana?

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 Krakow for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose La Romana for

  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on La Romana’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. Krakow 9, La Romana 84: La Romana leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, La Romana 38: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, La Romana 24: Krakow leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, La Romana 30: Krakow leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow and La Romana are level on 62.
Day trips. Krakow 76, La Romana 52: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, La Romana 56: Krakow leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, La Romana 24: Krakow leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, La Romana 28: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, La Romana 50: Krakow leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, La Romana 17: Krakow leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, La Romana 44: La Romana leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and La Romana.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowLa Romana
Official languagePolishSpanish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCE50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m10 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowLa Romana
City population804,237139,238
People per km²2,459512
Museums within 10 km1130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.