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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krakow or Miami Beach?

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
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Miami Beach for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami Beach’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, Miami Beach 92: Miami Beach leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Miami Beach 62: Miami Beach leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Miami Beach 52: Krakow leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Miami Beach 80: Miami Beach leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Miami Beach 52: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Miami Beach 55: Krakow leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Miami Beach 60: Miami Beach leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Miami Beach 58: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Miami Beach 55: Miami Beach leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Miami Beach 20: Krakow leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow and Miami Beach are level on 55.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Miami Beach 48: Miami Beach leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Miami Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Krakow
58match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Miami Beach
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowMiami Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowMiami Beach
Official languagePolish-
CurrencyZloty (PLN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m1 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMiami Beach
City population804,23782,890
People per km²2,4592,109
Museums within 10 km11314
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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.