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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Castel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, Naples
NaplesCastel Sant'Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Naples by pietro scerrato, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or Naples?

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

  • getting around
  • families
  • prices

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

Choose Naples for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples’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, Naples 50: Naples leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Naples 83: Naples leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Naples 87: Naples leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Naples 60: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Naples 77: Naples leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Naples 96: Naples leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Naples 45: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Naples 54: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Naples 60: Naples leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Naples 63: Krakow leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Naples 66: Naples leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Naples 44: Naples leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Naples.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Naples
Best match
65match

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

Naples in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Naples 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.

Naples's sunshine is measured 28 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Naples: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Napoli / Capodichino (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowNaples
Official languagePolishItalian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m17 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)7 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowNaples
City population804,237913,462
People per km²2,4597,676
Museums within 10 km11365
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.