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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Krakow or Paris?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Paris for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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 and Paris are level on 9.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Paris 96: Paris leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Paris 97: Paris leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Paris 80: Paris leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Paris 52: Krakow leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Paris 92: Paris leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Paris 79: Paris leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Paris 88: Paris leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Paris 98: Paris leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Paris 25: Krakow leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Paris 88: Paris leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Paris 40: Paris leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Paris.

Your match

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

Krakow
58match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on shopping and food and drink 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
16 hdaylight a day

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowParis

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowParis
Official languagePolishFrench
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation219 m27 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowParis
City population804,2372,103,778
People per km²2,45919,960
Museums within 10 km113251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44

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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.