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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or Oaxaca?

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

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Krakow leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Oaxaca 74: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Oaxaca 40: Krakow leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow and Oaxaca are level on 62.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Oaxaca 65: Krakow leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Oaxaca 40: Krakow leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Oaxaca 55: Krakow leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Oaxaca 38: Krakow leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on food and drink and shopping 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
16 hdaylight a day

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowOaxaca

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowOaxaca
Official languagePolishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation219 m1,555 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowOaxaca
City population804,237258,913
People per km²2,4593,028
Museums within 10 km11310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42

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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. 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.