VacationSelector

Krakow or Palermo?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Palermo
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

KrakowPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 67 points.67
KrakowPalermo
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km913
Coast distance456 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 18 points.18
KrakowPalermo
Score6850
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3013
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 25 points.25
KrakowPalermo
Score7550
Museums within 10 km8432
Museums within 2 km of centre6926
Share of museums within 2 km %8281
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 4 points.4
KrakowPalermo
Score5753
Drinking venues within 4 km836799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km5416
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 10 points.10
KrakowPalermo
Score4636
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km79 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 33 points.33
KrakowPalermo
Score7441
Tourist attractions within 2 km7716
Park area within 2 km79 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
KrakowPalermo
Score6857
Notable places within 2 km198104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
KrakowPalermo
Score7968
Price level global4964.9
Daily budget€133€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 19 points.19
KrakowPalermo
Score5877
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months47
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowPalermo
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 25 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKrakowPalermo
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 m14 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowPalermo
City population804,237630,167
People per km²2,4593,924
Museums within 10 km11442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6833
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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. 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. 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.