VacationSelector

Krakow or Montreal?

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

Your match

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

KrakowMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Montreal are level on 0.
KrakowMontreal
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km97
Coast distance456 km276 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 6 points.6
KrakowMontreal
Score6874
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0321,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3049
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 38 points.38
KrakowMontreal
Score7537
Museums within 10 km8439
Museums within 2 km of centre6919
Share of museums within 2 km %8249
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 5 points.5
KrakowMontreal
Score5762
Drinking venues within 4 km8361,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8349
Nightclubs within 4 km5474
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 10 points.10
KrakowMontreal
Score4636
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km79 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 24 points.24
KrakowMontreal
Score7450
Tourist attractions within 2 km7711
Park area within 2 km79 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 12 points.12
KrakowMontreal
Score6856
Notable places within 2 km19898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
KrakowMontreal
Score7954
Price level global4984
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 8 points.8
KrakowMontreal
Score5850
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm69 mm to 121 mm
Dry months40
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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowMontreal
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureKrakowMontreal
Official languagePolishFrench, English
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m31 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMontreal
City population804,2371,895,211
People per km²2,4593,806
Museums within 10 km11437
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6897

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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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.