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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or Marseille?

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

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Marseille for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Marseille’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, Marseille 72: Marseille leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Marseille 67: Marseille leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Marseille 63: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Marseille 57: Krakow leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Marseille 83: Marseille leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Marseille 86: Marseille leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Marseille 50: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Marseille 57: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Marseille 47: Krakow leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Marseille 45: Krakow leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Marseille 56: Marseille leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Marseille 37: Marseille leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Marseille.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Krakow
58match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Marseille
60match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Marseille in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowMarseille

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowMarseille
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m0 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMarseille
City population804,237886,040
People per km²2,4593,683
Museums within 10 km11327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 months

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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.