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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or Montevideo?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Montevideo 54: Krakow leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Montevideo 50: Krakow leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Montevideo 34: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Montevideo 55: Krakow leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Montevideo 55: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Montevideo 54: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Montevideo 36: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Montevideo 42: Krakow leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Montevideo.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowMontevideo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowMontevideo
Official languagePolish-
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCE50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m41 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMontevideo
City population804,2371,302,954
People per km²2,4591,785
Museums within 10 km11336
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.