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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krakow or Myrtle 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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle 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, Myrtle Beach 84: Myrtle Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Myrtle Beach 38: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Myrtle Beach 20: Krakow leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Myrtle Beach 42: Krakow leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Myrtle Beach 46: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Myrtle Beach 50: Krakow leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Myrtle Beach 18: Krakow leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Myrtle Beach 38: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Myrtle Beach 52: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Myrtle Beach 30: Krakow leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Myrtle Beach 28: Krakow leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Myrtle Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowMyrtle 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 m8 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowMyrtle Beach
City population804,23735,682
People per km²2,459591
Museums within 10 km1132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

Where else could you go?

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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.