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Krakow or Nuremberg?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Nuremberg
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

KrakowNuremberg
Beaches & swimming. Krakow and Nuremberg are level on 0.
KrakowNuremberg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km96
Coast distance456 km430 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowNuremberg
Score6864
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032700
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3033
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 23 points.23
KrakowNuremberg
Score7552
Museums within 10 km8453
Museums within 2 km of centre6929
Share of museums within 2 km %8255
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 9 points.9
KrakowNuremberg
Score5748
Drinking venues within 4 km836523
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8382
Nightclubs within 4 km5436
Nature & day trips. Nuremberg leads by 3 points.3
KrakowNuremberg
Score4649
Protected land share 50 km %1442
Landscape blanket share 50 km %141
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km79 hectares31 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 15 points.15
KrakowNuremberg
Score7459
Tourist attractions within 2 km7759
Park area within 2 km79 hectares31 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 24 points.24
KrakowNuremberg
Score6844
Notable places within 2 km19850
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 19 points.19
KrakowNuremberg
Score7960
Price level global4975.9
Daily budget€133€163
Year-round weather. Nuremberg leads by 2 points.2
KrakowNuremberg
Score5860
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C3.5 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm33 mm to 77 mm
Dry months44
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
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Nuremberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowNuremberg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
AntalyaAYT
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€206-349
1 stop
NUE · 5 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 45 m
no fares
KTW · 76 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€139-243
NUE · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 133 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 133 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

MeasureKrakowNuremberg
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 m209 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowNuremberg
City population804,237529,508
People per km²2,4592,839
Museums within 10 km11450
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6871

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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.