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Krakow or Munich?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Krakow
58
match

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

Munich
57
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

KrakowMunich
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Munich are level on 0.
KrakowMunich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km96
Coast distance456 km579 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Munich leads by 5 points.5
KrakowMunich
Score6873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0321,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3035
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 14 points.14
KrakowMunich
Score7561
Museums within 10 km8474
Museums within 2 km of centre6948
Share of museums within 2 km %8265
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Munich leads by 10 points.10
KrakowMunich
Score5767
Drinking venues within 4 km8361,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8357
Nightclubs within 4 km54103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 2 points.2
KrakowMunich
Score4648
Protected land share 50 km %1417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %115
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km79 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 5 points.5
KrakowMunich
Score7479
Tourist attractions within 2 km7780
Park area within 2 km79 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Krakow and Munich are level on 68.
KrakowMunich
Score6868
Notable places within 2 km198196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
KrakowMunich
Score7960
Price level global4975.9
Daily budget€133€163
Year-round weather. Krakow leads by 2 points.2
KrakowMunich
Score5856
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm46 mm to 121 mm
Dry months40
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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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€111-182
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureKrakowMunich
Official languagePolishGerman
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m519 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMunich
City population804,2371,510,378
People per km²2,4594,861
Museums within 10 km11474
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6889

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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.