VacationSelector

Krakow or Limassol?

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

Your match

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

KrakowLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
KrakowLimassol
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km927
Coast distance456 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
KrakowLimassol
Score6843
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3019
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 31 points.31
KrakowLimassol
Score7544
Museums within 10 km8417
Museums within 2 km of centre6910
Share of museums within 2 km %8259
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
KrakowLimassol
Score5739
Drinking venues within 4 km836340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8375
Nightclubs within 4 km5420
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 24 points.24
KrakowLimassol
Score4622
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10049
Park area within 2 km79 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 58 points.58
KrakowLimassol
Score7416
Tourist attractions within 2 km773
Park area within 2 km79 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 54 points.54
KrakowLimassol
Score6814
Notable places within 2 km1989
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 9 points.9
KrakowLimassol
Score7970
Price level global4961.4
Daily budget€133€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 27 points.27
KrakowLimassol
Score5885
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months48
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 51 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
BirminghamBHX
2 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureKrakowLimassol
Official languagePolishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m10 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowLimassol
City population804,237107,970
People per km²2,4592,405
Museums within 10 km1142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre6828
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.