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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krakow or Paphos?

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

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Paphos 45: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Paphos 62: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Paphos 38: Krakow leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Paphos 64: Krakow leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Paphos 40: Krakow leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Paphos 25: Krakow leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Paphos 52: Krakow leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Paphos 22: Krakow leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Paphos.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and families 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 seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowPaphos
Official languagePolishTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m72 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowPaphos
City population804,23735,961
People per km²2,4591,987
Museums within 10 km1134
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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.