VacationSelector

Krakow or Los Angeles?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KrakowLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
KrakowLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km90
Coast distance456 km
Water distance
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
KrakowLos Angeles
Score6866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0321,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3022
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 26 points.26
KrakowLos Angeles
Score7549
Museums within 10 km8469
Museums within 2 km of centre6923
Share of museums within 2 km %8233
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 3 points.3
KrakowLos Angeles
Score5754
Drinking venues within 4 km836660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8365
Nightclubs within 4 km5464
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
KrakowLos Angeles
Score4662
Protected land share 50 km %1426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km79 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 41 points.41
KrakowLos Angeles
Score7433
Tourist attractions within 2 km7711
Park area within 2 km79 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
KrakowLos Angeles
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 36 points.36
KrakowLos Angeles
Score7943
Price level global49100
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
KrakowLos Angeles
Score5887
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm0 mm to 76 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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 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

MeasureKrakowLos Angeles
Official languagePolish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m106 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowLos Angeles
City population804,2373,898,747
People per km²2,4592,994
Museums within 10 km11438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6846
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.