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The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square
The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea

Photos: Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License.

Krakow or Pattaya?

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
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Pattaya for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Pattaya’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, Pattaya 66: Pattaya leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Krakow 55, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Krakow 77, Pattaya 30: Krakow leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Krakow 68, Pattaya 76: Pattaya leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krakow 62, Pattaya 40: Krakow leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Krakow 76, Pattaya 52: Krakow leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Krakow 58, Pattaya 55: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Krakow 74, Pattaya 36: Krakow leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Krakow 48, Pattaya 42: Krakow leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Krakow 72, Pattaya 84: Pattaya leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krakow 55, Pattaya 30: Krakow leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krakow 36, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krakow and Pattaya.

Your match

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

Krakow
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Pattaya
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KrakowPattaya

Where the figures come from

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya 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.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrakowPattaya
Official languagePolishThai
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Baht (THB)
SocketsCE50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation219 m35 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowPattaya
City population804,237119,532
People per km²2,459-
Museums within 10 km1130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.