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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Krakow or Osaka?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Osaka for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Osaka 63: Krakow leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Osaka 58: Krakow leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Osaka 60: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Osaka.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

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
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowOsaka

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowOsaka
Official languagePolishJapanese
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation219 m20 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowOsaka
City population804,2372,751,862
People per km²2,45912,340
Museums within 10 km11344
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.