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Krakow or Malaga?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Krakow
58
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Malaga
59
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.

KrakowMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
KrakowMalaga
Score066
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km921
Coast distance456 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 1 points.1
KrakowMalaga
Score6869
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0321,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3034
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 22 points.22
KrakowMalaga
Score7553
Museums within 10 km8440
Museums within 2 km of centre6935
Share of museums within 2 km %8288
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 3 points.3
KrakowMalaga
Score5754
Drinking venues within 4 km836715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8368
Nightclubs within 4 km5445
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 3 points.3
KrakowMalaga
Score4643
Protected land share 50 km %147
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10063
Park area within 2 km79 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowMalaga
Score7453
Tourist attractions within 2 km7733
Park area within 2 km79 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 31 points.31
KrakowMalaga
Score6837
Notable places within 2 km19833
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
KrakowMalaga
Score7971
Price level global4960.8
Daily budget€133€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 24 points.24
KrakowMalaga
Score5882
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months45
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 9 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 0 m
€151-202
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKrakowMalaga
Official languagePolishSpanish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m18 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMalaga
City population804,237599,063
People per km²2,4591,517
Museums within 10 km11432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6865
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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.