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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Krakow or Lima?

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

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Lima for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Lima leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Lima 88: Lima leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Lima 66: Krakow leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Lima 62: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Lima 45: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Lima 34: Krakow leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Lima 42: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Lima 35: Krakow leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Lima 52: Lima leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Lima 70: Krakow leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Lima 53: Krakow leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Lima 25: Krakow leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Lima.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Lima
51match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowLima

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowLima
Official languagePolishSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCE50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation219 m154 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowLima
City population804,2379,943,800
People per km²2,4593,721
Museums within 10 km11347
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 months

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.