VacationSelector

Krakow or Pisa?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
45
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.

KrakowPisa
Beaches & swimming. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
KrakowPisa
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance456 km10 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 34 points.34
KrakowPisa
Score6834
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,032379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km309
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 20 points.20
KrakowPisa
Score7555
Museums within 10 km8427
Museums within 2 km of centre6922
Share of museums within 2 km %8281
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Krakow leads by 29 points.29
KrakowPisa
Score5728
Drinking venues within 4 km836232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre697203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8388
Nightclubs within 4 km543
Nature & day trips. Krakow leads by 7 points.7
KrakowPisa
Score4639
Protected land share 50 km %149
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km79 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 27 points.27
KrakowPisa
Score7447
Tourist attractions within 2 km7720
Park area within 2 km79 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
KrakowPisa
Score6847
Notable places within 2 km19858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Krakow leads by 11 points.11
KrakowPisa
Score7968
Price level global4964.9
Daily budget€133€155
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 12 points.12
KrakowPisa
Score5870
Monthly daytime high1.5 °C to 25.3 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 100 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months42
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Krakow
No sunshine record
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKrakowPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 50 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 10 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 20 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureKrakowPisa
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 m4 m
Main airportKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrakowPisa
City population804,23788,737
People per km²2,459479
Museums within 10 km11427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre6829
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.