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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Krakow or Nice?

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
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Nice for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Nice 66: Nice leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Nice 64: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Nice 47: Krakow leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Nice 80: Nice leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Nice 87: Nice leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Nice 57: Krakow leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Krakow and Nice are level on 74.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Nice 55: Nice leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Nice 35: Krakow leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Nice 45: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Nice 40: Nice leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Nice.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Krakow
58match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Nice
60match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowNice

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowNice
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m0 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowNice
City population804,237357,737
People per km²2,4594,975
Museums within 10 km11317
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.