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Krakow or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Krakow
58
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

KrakowMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Mexico City are level on 0.
KrakowMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km94
Coast distance456 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
KrakowMexico City
Score6866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0322,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3015
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
KrakowMexico City
Score7579
Museums within 10 km84138
Museums within 2 km of centre6965
Share of museums within 2 km %8247
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 21 points.21
KrakowMexico City
Score5778
Drinking venues within 4 km8362,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8343
Nightclubs within 4 km54198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
KrakowMexico City
Score4663
Protected land share 50 km %1430
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km79 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 24 points.24
KrakowMexico City
Score7450
Tourist attractions within 2 km7723
Park area within 2 km79 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
KrakowMexico City
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 3 points.3
KrakowMexico City
Score7976
Price level global4954.2
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 32 points.32
KrakowMexico City
Score5890
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months46
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 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 2026-09 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

MeasureKrakowMexico City
Official languagePolishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m2,240 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMexico City
City population804,2379,209,944
People per km²2,4596,202
Museums within 10 km114108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre6850

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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. 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.