VacationSelector

Krakow or Manchester?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

KrakowManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
KrakowManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km910
Coast distance456 km27 km
Water distance—27 km
Places to eat. Krakow and Manchester are level on 68.
KrakowManchester
Score6868
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3035
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 33 points.33
KrakowManchester
Score7542
Museums within 10 km8423
Museums within 2 km of centre6911
Share of museums within 2 km %8248
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 5 points.5
KrakowManchester
Score5762
Drinking venues within 4 km8361,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8377
Nightclubs within 4 km5482
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 10 points.10
KrakowManchester
Score4636
Protected land share 50 km %1417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %117
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km79 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 42 points.42
KrakowManchester
Score7432
Tourist attractions within 2 km775
Park area within 2 km79 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
KrakowManchester
Score6848
Notable places within 2 km19861
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
KrakowManchester
Score7954
Price level global4984.9
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowManchester
Score5854
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months40
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowManchester
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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.

Before you go

MeasureKrakowManchester
Official languagePolishEnglish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCE50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation219 m38 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowManchester
City population804,237547,627
People per km²2,4594,737
Museums within 10 km11428
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre6863
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.