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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Krakow or Luxor?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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, Luxor 6: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Luxor 30: Krakow leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Luxor 10: Krakow leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Luxor 32: Krakow leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Luxor 62: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Luxor 30: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Luxor 35: Krakow leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Luxor 25: Krakow leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Luxor 10: Krakow leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Luxor 28: Krakow leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Luxor.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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
16 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Luxor 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). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowLuxor
Official languagePolishArabic
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCE50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation219 m89 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowLuxor
City population804,237202,232
People per km²2,459486
Museums within 10 km1134
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41

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. 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.