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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or Marmaris?

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

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Marmaris 40: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Marmaris 18: Krakow leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Marmaris 60: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Marmaris 65: Krakow leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Marmaris 55: Krakow leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Marmaris 38: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Marmaris 62: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Marmaris 12: Krakow leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Marmaris.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
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

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowMarmaris
Official languagePolishTurkish
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m7 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMarmaris
City population804,23797,818
People per km²2,459111
Museums within 10 km1131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.