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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License.

Krakow or La Spezia?

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

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose La Spezia for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on La Spezia’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 Spezia 60: La Spezia leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, La Spezia 58: La Spezia leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, La Spezia 40: Krakow leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, La Spezia 28: Krakow leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, La Spezia 79: La Spezia leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, La Spezia 87: La Spezia leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, La Spezia 48: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, La Spezia 70: Krakow leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, La Spezia 35: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, La Spezia 50: Krakow leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, La Spezia 28: Krakow leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, La Spezia 32: Krakow leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and La Spezia.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

La Spezia
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

La Spezia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
20 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowLa Spezia

Where the figures come from

La Spezia's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

La Spezia 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 Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowLa Spezia
Official languagePolishItalian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m3 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowLa Spezia
City population804,23792,119
People per km²2,4591,792
Museums within 10 km11312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.